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Movie Reviews by Rory O'connor - Page 6 of 8

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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 31 Aug 2017

Downsizing is arguably the most flawed of Payne’s work, but despite its apocalyptic overtones, it’s also his most optimistic…

Review of Good Time (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 26 May 2017

It is a remarkably vivid and fresh piece of filmmaking, one that builds on the directors’ previous outings without being overly familiar…

Review of Before We Vanish (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 26 May 2017

An alien invasion B movie packed with A-grade ideas and craft…

Review of In the Fade (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 26 May 2017

It’s a solid stab at the socially conscious mainstream flick for Akin, especially after he faltered somewhat with his last political film…

Review of The Florida Project (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 25 May 2017

Baker indulges just a little too much time shooting his young hyperactive actors in off-key locations and perhaps not enough on their character…

Review of The Square (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 May 2017

While The Square is not as slick and streamlined a film as Force Majeure it still hunts for that same meaty psychological game and is never…

Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 May 2017

Coppola and her production team — including The Grandmaster cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd — have created a fully realized world of…

Review of The King (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 May 2017

If Jarecki struggles a little with this alchemy at times it is because Promised Land is essentially three movies in one: a detailed account…

Review of The King (2021)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 May 2017

An abstract road movie, fueled on disillusionment and rock and roll, and one that attempts quite an ambitious task…

Review of The King (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 May 2017

An abstract road movie, fueled on disillusionment and rock and roll, and one that attempts quite an ambitious task…

Review of The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 May 2017

Stiller and Sandler strike a warm and believably awkward brotherly connection, hitting some real on screen highs as they sit around the piano…

Review of Wonderstruck (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 May 2017

Haynes fails to impart Wonderstruck with the sort of zip that gives young persons’ capers like these the pacing they require…

Review of Have a Nice Day (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 Feb 2017

It might not quite end on a satisfying note, but Have a Nice Day remains an urgent, thoroughly entertaining, and inventive piece of filmmaking…

Review of Have a Nice Day (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 Feb 2017

It might not quite end on a satisfying note, but Have a Nice Day remains an urgent, thoroughly entertaining, and inventive piece of filmmaking…

Review of Have A Nice Day (2018)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 Feb 2017

It might not quite end on a satisfying note, but Have a Nice Day remains an urgent, thoroughly entertaining, and inventive piece of filmmaking…

Review of The Dinner (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 18 Feb 2017

You get the sense that Moverman may just have bitten off a little more than he can chew…

Review of The Other Side of Hope (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Feb 2017

Hope is as contemporary and vital a film as you’re likely to find in 2017, but it’s also one of the funniest and most classically (not…

Review of On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Feb 2017

On the Beach at Night Alone, a bittersweet tone poem from South Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo, thinks many a thought about the universe…

Review of Logan (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 Feb 2017

A rather brilliant mesh of dystopian and superhero tropes that proves to be as entertaining as it is timely…

Review of Hedi (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 09 Feb 2017

This generational and ideological clash simmers quietly beneath the film's romantic surface and lends to its contemporary tone, perhaps quietly…

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Rory O'connor has written reviews for:

Slant Magazine (8,298)
The Playlist (3,871)
The Film Stage (3,162)
CineVue (2,163)

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