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Review of The Lighthouse (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 May 2019

Much like The Witch, there is something quite mesmerizing about the meticulousness in the period detail here and how Eggers so seems to revel in it…

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Review of First Love (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 May 2019

The pacing is breakneck but the economy with which Miike establishes his various narrative threads and characters is astonishing…

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Review of First Love (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 May 2019

The pacing is breakneck but the economy with which Miike establishes his various narrative threads and characters is astonishing…

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Review of First Love (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 May 2019

The pacing is breakneck but the economy with which Miike establishes his various narrative threads and characters is astonishing…

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Review of The Souvenir (2019)

By Rory O’connor (154) for CineVue (2,163) on 15 Feb 2019

As heartbreaking as it is acutely observed, Hogg’s deep-diving autobiographical film is a beautiful, confessional tell-all about the brief…

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Review of The Plagiarists (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Feb 2019

Were The Plagiarists merely this observation of liberal minds in duress it would have made for a more than enjoyable watch but with credit…

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Review of Fourteen (2020)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 14 Feb 2019

A deep dive into the complexity and soft trauma of seeing those we idolized as kids through fresh eyes and what exactly to make of that new vantage…

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Review of The Golden Glove (2019)

By Rory O’connor (154) for CineVue (2,163) on 14 Feb 2019

Were it not for these overwrought provocations The Golden Glove could have been Akin’s most accomplished work in years…

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Review of Monos (2019)

By Rory O’connor (154) for CineVue (2,163) on 13 Feb 2019

Nothing short of an aesthete’s dream, a film crammed with visual bravado that at various times echoes Kubrick, Malick, and Coppola’s Apocalypse…

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Review of Museo (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 30 Dec 2018

The heist sequence alone is a confident mix of visual inventiveness and nods. What the film does lack, intentionally or not, is a clear moral arrow…

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Review of Vox Lux (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 14 Sep 2018

Corbet’s second feature owes a debt or two to filmmakers reveling in provocation, but it is no doubt the work of a daring original…

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Review of The Sisters Brothers (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 11 Sep 2018

The Sisters Brothers proffers a sort of Edenic vision, comedic but tinged with sadness, of a latter-day El Dorado that’s worth basking in,…

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Review of 22 July (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 07 Sep 2018

The director over-simplifies the killer, portraying a perpetrator of some of the most heinous acts imaginable as a basic fool with mommy issues…

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Review of Sunset (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 05 Sep 2018

It is difficult to find comparisons on a formal scale, and that the plot relies on a few reliable tropes does not distract from how clearly…

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Review of Monrovia, Indiana (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 04 Sep 2018

Wiseman is well known for his objectivity but another of his most enduring traits has been a dedication to showing audiences the hard, under-appreciated…

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Review of A Land Imagined (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 04 Sep 2018

Cooked with a broth of a few too many ideas, A Land Imagined is a so-close-to-being-great Singapore neo-noir that does all the right things,…

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Review of Peterloo (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Sep 2018

Leigh translates the defining moment–and those in the immediate lead-up–to the screen with tremendous weight and great clarity, making…

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Review of At Eternity's Gate (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Sep 2018

In its rupture from traditional biographical narratives, it does not merely stand out as unconventional biopic-it also comes close to resuscitating…

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Review of The Mountain (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 01 Sep 2018

As visually overcast as it is emotionally dead-eyed, The Mountain is probably the most intentionally-and unwarrantedly-bleak film you're likely…

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Review of The Mountain (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 01 Sep 2018

As visually overcast as it is emotionally dead-eyed, The Mountain is probably the most intentionally-and unwarrantedly-bleak film you're likely…

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