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Movie Reviews by Rory O'connor - Page 7 of 8

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Review of Jackie (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Sep 2016

This is remarkable stuff from a director on the cusp of the mainstream. You sense an American filmmaker might not have managed it…

Review of Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 06 Sep 2016

Malick might be singular in his earnest search for the sublime…

Review of The Bad Batch (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 05 Sep 2016

There is a great deal to savor here and yet it’s hard to shake the sense that The Bad Batch is a film stuck in neutral…

Review of One More Time with Feeling (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 04 Sep 2016

The most remarkable thing about Dominik’s film is that we are not only humble witnesses to such personal grief, but that we are seeing it…

Review of Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 03 Sep 2016

While derivative and endlessly cheesy, it’s a characteristically visceral return for Gibson, and one that confirms that little has changed…

Review of Chuck (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Sep 2016

The Bleeder isn’t attempting to reinvent any wheels, but it is consistently gripping — slick as a skip rope and just one hell of a story…

Review of Nocturnal Animals (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Sep 2016

With everything going on, Nocturnal Animals is the sort of narrative and tonal minefield that a lesser director could easily have gotten lost…

Review of Arrival (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 31 Aug 2016

Denis Villeneuve ponders the ramifications and possibilities of a potential first-contact between human beings and an advanced alien race and…

Review of La La Land (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 30 Aug 2016

It’s a twinkling surface examination of how humans try to coordinate their dreams with their reality (a very Hollywood conundrum), but also…

Review of La Flor (2019)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 30 Aug 2016

It’s a twinkling surface examination of how humans try to coordinate their dreams with their reality (a very Hollywood conundrum), but also…

Review of Barracuda (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 30 Aug 2016

It’s a twinkling surface examination of how humans try to coordinate their dreams with their reality (a very Hollywood conundrum), but also…

Review of De Palma (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 07 Jun 2016

De Palma is a fascinating, revealing, and compelling overview of a remarkably eclectic career, but it’s also a seldom-heard first-hand account…

Review of The Last Face (2017)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 21 May 2016

The nonsense really is rampant throughout, but the writing is on the wall (quite literally) from the opening introductory paragraph…

Review of I, Daniel Blake (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 May 2016

It’s often warm and quite funny, but is, at heart, a damning critique of the Tory government in Britain and their belt-tightening austerity…

Review of Loving (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 19 May 2016

Nichols has crafted a beautifully moving and tasteful document of a quietly groundbreaking event, told from a very human perspective…

Review of Two Lovers and a Bear (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 17 May 2016

Two Lovers and a Bear is at its most vibrant and enjoyable when Nguyen allows the surrealism to flourish…

Review of Julieta (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 16 May 2016

Riffing on Spanish telenovelas, Hitchcock, and film noir, Almodóvar and his production team have put together a slight, but undeniably gorgeous…

Review of Hell or High Water (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 May 2016

David McKenzie’s Hell or High Water is a gritty, darkly humorous, and fiendishly violent neo-western…

Review of The BFG (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 13 May 2016

Nobody could fault the detail of the art department’s work here, but there is an odd sluggishness to the imagery, as if the whole film is…

Review of American Honey (2016)

By Rory O'connor (154) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 13 May 2016

It’s visually astonishing and often devastating, too. This might be the freshest film about young people in America since Larry Clark’s Kids…

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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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