Paul O'Callaghan
Paul O'Callaghan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when
published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Sight and Sound,
Slant Magazine,
Little White Lies
| Publications: | Sight and Sound, Slant Magazine, Little White Lies |
Movie Reviews Only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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| 1.5/4 | 67% | Ideal Home (2018) |
The broad strokes of the performances make the film's occasional lurches into sentimentality seem especially jarring.‐ Slant Magazine
Read More | Posted Jun 26, 2018
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| 2.5/4 | 76% | Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist (2018) |
Lorna Tucker's documentary sustains a tone that oscillates between earnest admiration and wry exasperation.‐ Slant Magazine
Read More | Posted Jun 4, 2018
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| No Score Yet | Hard Paint (Tinta Bruta) (2018) |
Matzembacher and Reolon perform a deft balancing act, crafting a character study that is empathetic and emotionally engaging yet unflinching and unsentimental, and unapologetically erotic.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Mar 8, 2018
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| 43% | Touch Me Not (2018) |
Touch Me Not should strike a chord most readily with those who've struggled to understand or express their own identity, but adventurous viewers of all persuasions should approach this celebration of female and minority sexuality with an open mind.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Feb 26, 2018
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| 93% | Madeline's Madeline (2018) |
At once intimidatingly dense and breezily concise, uncompromisingly experimental and riotously entertaining.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Feb 19, 2018
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| 93% | Custody (Jusqu'à la garde) (2018) |
One hell of a calling card, and perhaps the most dazzling fusion of grim social realism and giddy genre thrills since Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Sep 19, 2017
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| 96% | Foxtrot (2018) |
As the full story of Jonathan's demise finally takes shape, it transpires that Maoz has kept a final, bitterly cruel trick up his sleeves.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Sep 12, 2017
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| 92% | Lean on Pete (2018) |
Haigh has rearranged the building blocks of mawkish teen melodrama into a bracing and bittersweet coming-of-age fable.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Sep 5, 2017
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| 95% | Call Me by Your Name (2018) |
Stripped of the baggage that so often complicates and corrupts queer romance, Call Me by Your Name is allowed to flourish as an unfiltered evocation of the agony and ecstasy of first love.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Feb 22, 2017
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| 99% | God's Own Country (2017) |
This is one of the most assured, fully-formed British debuts of recent years.‐ Sight and Sound
Read More | Posted Feb 20, 2017
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| 3/5 | 81% | Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) |
A relatively modest B-movie bolstered by A-grade technical wizardry.‐ Little White Lies
Read More | Posted Aug 11, 2011
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| 2/5 | 53% | Last Night (2011) |
Leaves you to fill in the gaps, but you won't care enough to bother.‐ Little White Lies
Read More | Posted Jun 2, 2011
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| 3/5 | 86% | Cedar Rapids (2011) |
Its breezy charm papers over narrative cracks and minor annoyances.‐ Little White Lies
Read More | Posted Apr 28, 2011
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