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Dave Calhoun

Dave Calhoun

Agrees with the Tomatometer 84% of the time.

Biography:
Time Out film critic.
Publications:
Sydney Morning Herald , Time Out , Time Out New York , Time Out Sydney
Total Reviews:
429

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
3/5 100% Girl Model () " A sensible affair, even if its point of view clearly nods towards accusations of exploitation." — Time Out
Posted Feb 7, 2012
3/5 78% A Dangerous Method (2011) " Knightley gives a fair performance but lumbers herself with a distracting accent, and her gurning in the early scenes may be too much for some to bear." — Time Out
Posted Feb 7, 2012
2/5 13% W.E. (2012) " Has all the credibility of a fan stamping her feet and insisting her idol be understood." — Time Out New York
Posted Jan 31, 2012
4/5 90% Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) " Once we've got over the frustration of this promising film's abrupt ending, we're left with the feeling that you can escape a cult but you can't escape yourself." — Time Out
Posted Jan 31, 2012
4/5 71% Carnage (2011) " Brief, brutal and barmy." — Time Out
Posted Jan 31, 2012
3/5 90% The Descendants (2011) " Payne is an unobtrusive director, a filmmaker who lets the script do the walking - in this case, perhaps too much." — Time Out
Posted Jan 24, 2012
2/5 13% W.E. (2012) " Riseborough's acting offers total commitment in the face of lunacy, but it's a shame she's flapping around in a film with such a terrible script and warped sense of purpose." — Time Out
Posted Jan 17, 2012
4/5 44% J. Edgar (2011) " A pleasing, intelligent film happy to describe Hoover's behaviour as monstrous but too balanced and searching to damn him as a monster." — Time Out
Posted Jan 17, 2012
3/5 93% A Useful Life (2011) " [A] short, sweet, slow-tempo Uruguayan film..." — Time Out
Posted Jan 10, 2012
3/5 76% War Horse (2011) " Spielberg still manages to surprise and impress." — Time Out
Posted Jan 10, 2012
4/5 80% Shame (2011) " It reconfirms McQueen as a filmmaker with an unflinching, microscopic gaze on the world." — Time Out
Posted Jan 10, 2012
3/5 77% Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Time Out
Posted Dec 15, 2011
5/5 86% Dreams Of A Life () " Morley's film is a mirror. How much do we know ourselves? How much do others know us? It works on the ego as much as it works on our empathy." — Time Out
Posted Dec 15, 2011
3/5 90% Wreckers () " [A] low-key, high-tension British indie drama..." — Time Out
Posted Dec 13, 2011
4/5 87% The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) " Fans of the book and film should rest easy at how this 'Dragon Tattoo' is still inherently a Swedish tale - set and partly shot in Sweden - and Fincher doesn't flinch from the sexual violence at their core." — Time Out
Posted Dec 13, 2011
3/5 36% We Have a Pope (2012) " It's an uneven film, almost pleasingly vague in its conclusions yet also unsatisfying." — Time Out
Posted Nov 29, 2011
4/5 100% We Were Here (2011) " [A] sober, devastating film about how we all - and some more than others - have to deal with the most unexpected horrors in our lives." — Time Out
Posted Nov 22, 2011
3/5 84% My Week with Marilyn (2011) " It's pedestrian in most ways, but Williams - with a little help from friends in the lighting, camera, hair and make-up departments - lends it a touch of magic amid the nonsense." — Time Out
Posted Nov 22, 2011
3/5 88% The Deep Blue Sea (2012) " It's sad as a story and deeply evocative as a period piece, but it fails to take a grip on the heart in the same way that the very best of Davies's films do." — Time Out
Posted Nov 22, 2011
5/5 96% WALL-E (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
5/5 91% There Will Be Blood (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
2/5 29% Lucky You (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
4/5 92% Another Year (2010) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
3/5 82% Into the Wild (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
5/5 85% In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
4/5 97% The Artist (2011) " The Artist never feels like a parody or a good idea that becomes laborious in the execution. It's lovingly corny, great fun, good-looking and respectful." — Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
3/5 86% Paris Je T'aime (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 18, 2011
1/5 79% Teeth (2007) " I'm not sure I've ever seen rape, incest or abuse dealt with so vapidly." — Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2011
4/5 89% A Serious Man (2009) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
2/5 40% Hancock (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
2/5 57% RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
—— Kidulthood (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
4/5 67% Never Apologize: A Personal Visit with Lindsay Anderson (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
5/5 89% Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
3/5 —— Adulthood (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
4/5 79% A Mighty Heart (2007) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
3/5 43% You yi tian (One Day) (2010) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
4/5 —— Saying Good-bye, Oneday (Sayonara Istuka) () Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
3/5 86% Shine a Light (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
3/5 67% A Very British Gangster (2008) Time Out
Posted Nov 16, 2011
4/5 83% This Our Still Life () " 'This Our Still Life' is Kötting's attempt to make sense of their life and the footage he has shot in this bolthole on various cameras and formats over the years." — Time Out
Posted Nov 15, 2011
3/5 72% Magic Trip (2011) " Helps us to dive headfirst into both the journey and period and decide for ourselves whether to take it or leave it." — Time Out
Posted Nov 15, 2011
4/5 93% Oslo, 31. August () " Trier has adapted a 1930s French novel, which in 1963 Louis Malle filmed as 'Le Feu Follet', but this feels totally fresh and modern in its concerns. It's also devastating." — Time Out
Posted Nov 1, 2011
2/5 37% Restless (2011) " All surface, no thought and quite horribly empty." — Time Out
Posted Oct 18, 2011
4/5 84% Contagion (2011) " Adopting a clean, chronological and punchy approach, Soderbergh holds a steady eye on panic and chaos. It's a disaster movie with a brain and conscience." — Time Out
Posted Oct 18, 2011
3/5 72% POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) " A robust and amusing reminder of how Hollywood's tills are topped up by third-party brands and what they get - and we lose - in return." — Time Out
Posted Oct 11, 2011
3/5 93% Midnight in Paris (2011) " It's fun and it's most welcome." — Time Out
Posted Oct 5, 2011
4/5 100% The Green Wave () " Manages to offer an informative chronicle of events as well as an emotional outpouring of regret and anger from those who saw their hopes dashed on the streets of Tehran." — Time Out
Posted Sep 27, 2011
4/5 80% Page One: Inside the New York Times (2011) " 'Page One: Inside the New York Times' is sanguine about change. It describes it, captures it, but doesn't lament it." — Time Out
Posted Sep 21, 2011
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