Dave Calhoun

Dave Calhoun

Agrees with the Tomatometer 85% of the time.

Biography:
Time Out film critic.
Publications:
Sydney Morning Herald , Time Out , Time Out New York , Time Out Sydney
Total Reviews:
559

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
4/5 76% Filth () " You'll be scraping this film out from under your fingernails for weeks." — Time Out
Posted Sep 26, 2013
3/5 77% Kelly + Victor () " It's not all convincing. Campbell-Hughes (remote, brittle) is odd casting ... But once we're in the bedroom, the film takes on a shocking, bold air." — Time Out
Posted Sep 17, 2013
4/5 91% Blue Jasmine (2013) " You have to dig deep in Allen's back catalogue to find a single performance as affecting and well-judged as the one Cate Blanchett delivers." — Time Out
Posted Sep 17, 2013
3/5 86% Young & Beautiful (Jeune Et Jolie) () " It's to Ozon's credit that he never serves up easy answers, and even after ample scenes of sex and showdowns with those closest to Isabelle, and even a scene with a psychologist, we're none the wiser as to what's driving her." — Time Out
Posted Sep 14, 2013
4/5 88% Rush (2013) " Fast, slippery, stormy and dangerous. " — Time Out
Posted Sep 10, 2013
4/5 89% Locke () " This is a masterclass in how the most local, most hemmed-in stories can reverberate with the power of big, universal themes." — Time Out
Posted Sep 8, 2013
4/5 100% The Stuart Hall Project () " Akomfrah finds an imaginative way of telling Hall's story.'" — Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
5/5 88% Under the Skin () " An intoxicating marvel, strange and sublime. " — Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
5/5 91% The Great Beauty () " Sorrentino is so often compared to Fellini that it feels right that he has made the city of 'La Dolce Vita' the focus for this heady, beautiful, entrancing film." — Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
3/5 58% The Zero Theorem () " A lo-fi, future-tech farce with an air of high-end cyber panto. " — Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
4/5 93% Philomena (2013) " A terrifically moving film that has a fitting earthbound feel to it as well as a barely suppressed anger at crimes inflicted on the powerless" — Time Out
Posted Sep 4, 2013
4/5 100% Purple Noon (Plein soleil) (1996) " It's Delon -- impossibly beautiful, impossible to read, cold, cool -- who steals the film." — Time Out
Posted Aug 27, 2013
2/5 56% Morrissey 25: Live (2013) " Even if the performances range from rousing to ropey, watching the cult of Mozza in action still offers some unintended pleasures." — Time Out
Posted Aug 21, 2013
4/5 89% Mahanagar (The Big City) (The Great City) (1967) " Ray's style is direct, realist and sympathetic." — Time Out
Posted Aug 13, 2013
3/5 27% Planes (2013) " An endearing enough David-and-Goliath tale, aimed squarely at younger kids. " — Time Out
Posted Aug 13, 2013
3/5 62% About Time (2013) " In Curtis's hands, time travel is really a way of learning how to live a better life. (Strangely, though, we're not meant to think there's anything creepy about playing puppetmaster with people's lives.) " — Time Out
Posted Aug 9, 2013
4/5 90% Silence () " Enigmatic and rewarding." — Time Out
Posted Aug 6, 2013
3/5 79% Foxfire () " In lesser hands, the same story could feel like a misguided, girl-power exploitation flick." — Time Out
Posted Aug 6, 2013
1/5 40% Only God Forgives (2013) " Style over substance doesn't really tell the half of it: you can bathe a corpse in groovy light and dress it in an expensive suit, but in the end that rotting smell just won't go away." — Time Out
Posted Jul 30, 2013
3/5 81% The Moo Man () " Some may find it a soothing counterpoint to the heady agricultural storylines on 'The Archers'. Udders may be more discerning." — Time Out
Posted Jul 9, 2013
4/5 100% Les Invisibles () " It's an inspiring, often surprising watch." — Time Out
Posted Jul 9, 2013
5/5 95% The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle)(Every Man for Himself and God Against All) (1974) " The conflict between logic and the unknowable is as fascinating and exciting for us as it clearly is for Herzog." — Time Out
Posted Jul 3, 2013
3/5 98% Before Midnight (2013) " Hawke and Delpy remain as charming as ever, and their combined goofiness is more endearing than annoying." — Time Out
Posted Jun 18, 2013
4/5 56% Man of Steel (2013) " 'Man of Steel' is punchy, engaging and fun, even if it slips into a final 45 minutes of explosions and fights during which reason starts to vanish and the science gets muddy." — Time Out
Posted Jun 11, 2013
4/5 95% Behind the Candelabra (2013) " It's both a romp and uncomfortably real." — Time Out
Posted Jun 4, 2013
3/5 67% The Iceman (2013) " Even the always-watchable Shannon can't give much life to Kuklinski's two-dimensional presence: he's little more than a series of murders and pained looks." — Time Out
Posted Jun 4, 2013
4/5 82% Something in the Air (2013) " Free of nostalgia and not overly critical in hindsight, it captures the immediacy of youth in hugely endearing fashion." — Time Out
Posted May 21, 2013
5/5 92% Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) " The Coens have given us a melancholic, sometimes cruel, often hilarious counterfactual version of music history. It's a what-if imagining of a cultural also-ran that maybe tells us more about the truth than the facts themselves ever could." — Time Out
Posted May 20, 2013
4/5 98% Beware Of Mr. Baker (2012) " It's refreshing to watch a music doc, especially one with such intimate access to its subject, in which barely anyone is unreservedly polite about the person in question." — Time Out
Posted May 14, 2013
4/5 100% Village At The End Of The World () " Much like its subject, this film by Sarah Gavron has a leisurely, warm pace." — Time Out
Posted May 8, 2013
100% It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) " It's a bold attempt to get inside the mind of someone who's losing theirs, and Hertzfeldt has a grip on the idea and reality of death that's deeply unsettling." — Time Out
Posted Apr 30, 2013
3/5 92% Gimme The Loot (2013) " 'Gimme the Loot' is ... meandering and a little shallow. And even at 79 minutes it feels a little too long for what's essentially the film equivalent of a short story." — Time Out
Posted Apr 30, 2013
4/5 87% Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) " A stop-gap tale that's modest, fun and briefly amusing rather than one that breaks new ground or offers hugely memorable set pieces." — Time Out
Posted Apr 30, 2013
3/5 100% White Elephant (2013) " 'White Elephant' throws us into the fray of an urban slum without in any way demonising or romanticising the theatre within which Trapero's meandering story unfolds." — Time Out
Posted Apr 24, 2013
3/5 66% Spring Breakers (2013) " It's campy and comic at times, but Korine also gives the film a downbeat, melancholic edge, with voiceovers, pointed repetition of dialogue and images, and hallucinatory camera work, sound and editing." — Time Out
Posted Apr 4, 2013
4/5 73% One Mile Away () " Genuinely eye-opening." — Time Out
Posted Mar 26, 2013
4/5 68% The Spirit of '45 () " The film works all at once as a lament, a celebration and a wake-up call to modern politicians and voters." — Time Out
Posted Mar 12, 2013
3/5 62% Broken (2013) " Norris works hard to inject some joy and wonder into what could easily be a much more dark and miserable experience." — Time Out
Posted Mar 5, 2013
4/5 91% Caesar Must Die (2013) " It's an arresting, playful and moving film ..." — Time Out
Posted Feb 26, 2013
4/5 83% The Road: A Story of Life & Death () " More than a film about immigration, this is a film about London - a city where journeys begin as often as they end and where life's roads are far too unpredictable to be mapped." — Time Out
Posted Feb 20, 2013
4/5 100% Gangs of Wasseypur () " The storytelling is brisk and the language and violence are surprisingly frank for popular Indian cinema." — Time Out
Posted Feb 20, 2013
2/5 44% To The Wonder (2013) " There's a phoniness to the film's people and places that keeps us at a fatal distance from the big ideas with which 'To the Wonder' seeks to engage us." — Time Out
Posted Feb 20, 2013
3/5 94% Side by Side (2012) " Keanu Reeves is a game frontman of this fact-filled, slightly chaotic doc about the rise of digital technology in film." — Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2013
2/5 14% A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) " As workmanlike as men in fluorescent tabards repainting the white lines on the North Circular on a wet Tuesday." — Time Out
Posted Feb 14, 2013
4/5 89% Lincoln (2012) " 'Lincoln' works as a snapshot of a great man without ever slipping into a portrait of sainthood." — Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
2/5 27% Life Just Is () Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
3/5 61% Jig (2011) Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
3/5 44% Helen (2010) Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
2/5 80% We Are Poets () Time Out
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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