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Sheila O'Malley

Agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

Publications:: Chicago Sun-Times , RogerEbert.com

Total Reviews:: 23

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
3.5/4	74%	Concussion (2013)	" Takes this well-worn storyline and makes something unique out of it, something fresh and bizarre." — RogerEbert.com Posted Oct 4, 2013
3.5/4	78%	Metallica Through the Never (2013)	" A gigantic spectacle, a virtual-reality experience that is both ridiculous and sublime, sometimes in the same moment." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 29, 2013
2.5/4	80%	Prisoners (2013)	" Aspects of "Prisoners" are effective, but for the most part it's rather ridiculous (despite the fact that it clearly wants to be taken super-seriously), and there's an overwrought quality to much of the acting." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 20, 2013
3.5/4	95%	Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013)	" As he does in his roles, Stanton opens himself up to the camera in a way that has the indelible stamp of truth, an almost fragile sense of honesty." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 16, 2013
3/4	33%	The Family (2013)	" The Family is a pretty uneven film, lurching from comedy to violence to sentiment, but it's best when it sticks in the realm of flat-out farce." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 13, 2013
3/4	61%	My Father and the Man in Black (2013)	" This has the potential to be dreadfully maudlin stuff, but the film is too damn interesting to be maudlin." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 10, 2013
3.5/4	100%	Red Obsession (2013)	" A film about obsession, about wine-mania, about people who live, breathe, eat, think, drink wine." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 6, 2013
2/4	13%	The Lifeguard (2013)	" "The Lifeguard" is hemmed in by vagueness and cliche, and nearly ruined by its soundtrack, an insistent barrage of thematically obvious alt-radio music cues." — RogerEbert.com Posted Sep 2, 2013
3/4	57%	The Frozen Ground (2013)	" "The Frozen Ground" trucks in cliche, as most serial killer and police procedural films do, but the strength of the acting (from the leads down to people with only one or two lines) helps ground the film." — RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 27, 2013
3.5/4	81%	Una noche (One Night) (2013)	" Despite the bleak-ness of the situation, the film vibrates with color, noise, music, ferocious arguments (both serious and teasing), and eye-catching snapshots of everyday life in Havana." — RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 23, 2013
2.5/4	80%	We the Parents (2013)	" "We the Parents," one-sided and promotional as it often feels, presents a possible solution, as well as the difficulties in achieving it." — RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 16, 2013
2/4	55%	I Give It a Year (2013)	" It's not romantic in the slightest, and it is quite comedic on occasion, but the parts don't fit together at all." — RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 13, 2013
3.5/4	51%	Blood (2013)	" At times, "Blood," feels like a slightly-filled-out television police procedural with better cinematography, but the performances have an almost Shakespearean grandeur." — RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 13, 2013
2.5/4	28%	Drift (2013)	" The acting is quite good, natural and fresh, and the surfing footage is magnificent. "Drift," though, is a weird mix, and not always successful." — RogerEbert.com Posted Aug 7, 2013
3/4	65%	The Heat (2013)	" Yes, it's a cop-buddy film, and of course there is a case to be solved. But nobody cares about the familiarity of the premise. You get the sense that Paul Feig doesn't care either." — RogerEbert.com Posted Jul 3, 2013
3.5/4	96%	A Band Called Death (2013)	" Death never got very far, and their story is a fascinating one, told beautifully by Jeff Howlett and Mark Christopher Covino." — RogerEbert.com Posted Jul 1, 2013
4/4	84%	Much Ado About Nothing (2013)	" The magic holds. It holds from beginning to end." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jun 21, 2013
2/4	76%	The Kings of Summer (2013)	" There is much here to admire, but the overall impression is of a film that does not have the courage of its convictions." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Jun 11, 2013
4/4	95%	Stories We Tell (2013)	" Stories told again and again have a way of neatening things up. Stories have a way of ironing out the wrinkles. Polley lets the wrinkles remain." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted May 23, 2013
4/4	85%	Sightseers (2013)	" Lowe and Oram have been living with these characters for years, and it shows. The acting is very funny and well-observed." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted May 9, 2013
3/4	88%	What Maisie Knew (2013)	" "What Maisie Knew" is an indictment of those who do not realize that innocence is not something to be scorned and used, but cherished and protected." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted May 2, 2013
4/4	92%	Gimme The Loot (2013)	" Adam Leon has created something unique and current, with affectionate nods to New York films of the past." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Mar 21, 2013

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