Charlotte O'Sullivan
Charlotte O'Sullivan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when
published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
London Evening Standard,
Independent (UK),
Sight and Sound,
Time Out
| Publications: | London Evening Standard, Independent (UK), Sight and Sound, Time Out |
Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 3/5 | 67% | Cars 3 (2017) |
If you can detach your noggin from the proceedings, there are definitely bright spots.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jul 14, 2017
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| 3/5 | 88% | David Lynch: The Art Life (2017) |
I didn't find the anecdotes especially revealing and was unimpressed by much of the art.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jul 14, 2017
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| 4/5 | 84% | The Death of Louis XIV (La mort de Louis XIV) (2017) |
If you like this kind of thing, The Death of Louis XIV is fascinating.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jul 14, 2017
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| 4/5 | 88% | It Comes At Night (2017) |
It's not exactly scary but it made me so tense I could hardly breathe, let alone think.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jul 7, 2017
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| 4/5 | 92% | Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) |
Holland probably has five more years in which to dazzle us, and it'll be a crime if Batalon and Zendaya aren't by his side. This franchise is now all about Peter and his friends. Here's looking at you, kids.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jul 7, 2017
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| 3/5 | 61% | Despicable Me 3 (2017) |
Watching Agnes is like emptying five packets of Space Dust into your mouth: guaranteed to induce tingles.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jul 2, 2017
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| 4/5 | 94% | Baby Driver (2017) |
Here's a prediction. First-year drama students will soon be Blu-Tacking the hell out of posters for Baby Driver, which will make Edgar Wright at once embarrassed and proud.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jul 2, 2017
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| 4/5 | 85% | Okja (2017) |
Bong's slick and slippery offering is a game-changer. Call it Netflix's first great film. Call it, simply, great.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jun 26, 2017
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| 3/5 | 15% | Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) |
Though convoluted and mostly indistinguishable from piffle, it's by no means the worst of the bunch.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jun 26, 2017
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| 3/5 | 43% | Hampstead (2017) |
Keaton and Gleeson are sweet together (I like the sweaty, studenty-vibe they create in Emma's attic). It's also nice to see London's housing crisis being discussed.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jun 26, 2017
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| 3/5 | 69% | Gifted (2017) |
Emotional manipulation gets a bad press. But, hey, sometimes being milked for tears is fun.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jun 18, 2017
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| 4/5 | 87% | Whitney: Can I Be Me (2017) |
You get the sense of a woman battling so hard to impress white America that her moral compass has gone haywire.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jun 18, 2017
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| 4/5 | 96% | After the Storm (Umi yori mo mada fukaku) (2017) |
This isn't a weepie but as you realise what's happening you may want to cry.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jun 2, 2017
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| 4/5 | 100% | My Life as a Zucchini (Ma vie de courgette) (2017) |
My Life as a Courgette isn't perfect (some of the adult characters lack nuance) but its attempt to redefine innocence is stirring.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jun 2, 2017
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| 2/5 | 19% | Baywatch (2017) |
Cynical and gross.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted May 30, 2017
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| 4/5 | 94% | The Red Turtle (La tortue rouge) (2017) |
Small children often experience the world as simultaneously solid and fantastical; De Wit's beautiful film tugs us into that mindset.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted May 30, 2017
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| 3/5 | 35% | Snatched (2017) |
Snatched is the kind of movie that makes long-haul flights whizz by. Its heroines are dumber than they should be and smarter than they know.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted May 19, 2017
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| 4/5 | 80% | Colossal (2017) |
It's a shame Raymond Carver is not around to watch this.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted May 19, 2017
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| 3/5 | 92% | The Levelling (2017) |
EU rules. Insurance scams. Infectious diseases. These are all serious topics, yet it's when Leach fools around that The Levelling feels like it has something truly important to say.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted May 12, 2017
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| 4/5 | 75% | Miss Sloane (2016) |
Elizabeth Sloane's a real piece of work - and so is this film.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted May 12, 2017
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| 4/5 | 97% | Burden (2017) |
The Seventies footage is electrifying. But what makes this documentary special is that it doesn't put its subject on a pedestal.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted May 5, 2017
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| 3/5 | 90% | Mindhorn (2016) |
Barratt's delightfulness can't disguise the mediocrity of Mindhorn.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted May 5, 2017
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| 3/5 | 50% | The Promise (2017) |
The sets look phoney. The relentlessly sun-dappled skies are naff. The "action" lacks momentum and Tom Hollander's eyeliner is mad.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Apr 28, 2017
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| 4/5 | 97% | Clash (Eshtebak) (2016) |
It's a tiny movie but it feels like a big deal.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Apr 21, 2017
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| 4/5 | 73% | The Sense Of An Ending (2017) |
Tony and his frenemies are a peculiar bunch. Hang out with them while you can.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Apr 14, 2017
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| 66% | The Fate of the Furious (2017) |
In the words of Kurt Russell's FBI maverick, Mr Nobody: "Rule number one. Know your audience." The powers-that-be certainly know us.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Apr 14, 2017
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| 4/5 | 99% | Get Out (2017) |
Mostly [Peele] creates a lovely, off-kilter mood, riffing with tremendous visual poise on all sorts of classics, including Seconds, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Stepford Wives.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Mar 27, 2017
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| 3/5 | 87% | The Lost City of Z (2017) |
Though brand new, The Lost City of Z already feels out of date.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Mar 24, 2017
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| 2/5 | 80% | Personal Shopper (2017) |
Within five minutes, I was shivering with boredom.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Mar 17, 2017
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| 3/5 | 97% | The Salesman (Forushande) (2017) |
It's wellacted and full of low-key pain and humour (you would expect nothing less from the man behind A Separation, one of the most excruciatingly humane and nuanced films of the decade).‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Mar 17, 2017
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| 2/5 | 23% | The Time of Their Lives (2017) |
The script, along with Roger Goldby's direction, is numbingly inept.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Mar 12, 2017
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| 3/5 | 76% | Kong: Skull Island (2017) |
The CGI Kong is cool.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Mar 12, 2017
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| 3/5 | 77% | Viceroy's House (2017) |
Fighting a stealth war on conventional thinking, Chadha offers us a tantalising epic, what you might call a halfway house.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Mar 3, 2017
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| 4/5 | 92% | Certain Women (2016) |
Its rhythms and performances are built to last. If you don't seek it out now, it'll catch you later.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Mar 3, 2017
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| 2/5 | 42% | A Cure For Wellness (2017) |
Unanswered questions pile up, until only one remains. Could this be the stupidest third act EVER?‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Feb 24, 2017
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| 3/5 | 45% | It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) (2016) |
Seydoux, Cassel and Baye, though hampered by character arcs that feel a shade too familiar, are more than adequate.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Feb 24, 2017
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| 93% | Fences (2016) |
This is a portrait of a doomed marriage that allows its stars to explode.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Feb 10, 2017
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| 2/5 | 10% | Fifty Shades Darker (2017) |
Feels like something farted out of the backside of the Eighties.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Feb 10, 2017
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| 4/5 | 92% | Toni Erdmann (2016) |
Boasts two fascinating characters and a string of surreal set-pieces that you can't afford to miss.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Feb 3, 2017
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| 2/5 | 43% | Gold (2017) |
Deluded-yet-indomitable, Kenny is just too familiar a figure and the absurdly upbeat twist ending is the final insult.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Feb 3, 2017
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| 3/5 | 78% | T2 Trainspotting (2017) |
When presented with the script, Boyle et al should just have said no.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jan 27, 2017
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| 4/5 | 85% | Lion (2016) |
Google Earth has blind spots and so does Lion. Still, it covers an awful lot of ground and the views are stunning.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jan 22, 2017
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| 3/5 | 75% | Split (2017) |
It's far from perfect, but where so many modern horror movies are anonymous, Split has personality and then some.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jan 22, 2017
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| 3/5 | 34% | Live By Night (2017) |
It ain't rubbish, but Affleck's fly-by-night operation is still one to avoid.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Jan 13, 2017
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| 4/5 | 87% | A Monster Calls (2017) |
If you like weird bedtime stories, hunt it down.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Dec 23, 2016
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| 4/5 | 67% | Rats (2016) |
Crude but crafty ...‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Dec 18, 2016
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| 4/5 | 92% | The Eagle Huntress (2016) |
This lovely ode to change (which gets you thinking, not just about gender but all hierarchies) contains two powerful youngsters. It should really be called The Eaglet and her Girl.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Dec 18, 2016
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| 4/5 | 100% | The Pass (2016) |
Williams's wrenching yarn dissects various betrayals and offers a useful reminder: when it's all about the brand, we're all fair game.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Dec 9, 2016
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| 2/5 | 61% | Snowden (2016) |
Stone's film is about as suspenseful as a trip to Ikea.‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Dec 9, 2016
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| 4/5 | 96% | Moana (2016) |
In the next election, can I just vote Disney?‐ London Evening Standard
Read More | Posted Dec 4, 2016
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