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Catherine Wheatley

Catherine Wheatley's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Teachers' Lounge (2023) 95% EDIT “There’s the suggestion that the corruption is systemic – the conspiracy goes right to the top – but the film is so busy skewering everything that it becomes unfocused, baggy.” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2025 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% EDIT “A brief foray through Hersh’s late career suggests that he is not without his failings. Still, one can only stand in awe of his dogged determination to reveal a history that is, as he remarks with typical understatement, so hard to write.” – Sight & Sound Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Witches (2024) 84% EDIT “Still, from the maelstrom of madness and horror there emerges hope. Ultimately, Witches is a film that is as much about love as Sankey’s earlier film, if not more so. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 11, 2025 Full Review The Girl With the Needle (2024) 92% EDIT “Von Horn isn’t making a social treatise but an adult fairytale. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 95% EDIT “Joel Edgerton gives a career-best performance as a travelling labourer in Clint Bentley’s extraordinary film about a period of extraordinary change in early 20th century America. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Parthenope (2024) 47% EDIT “It is grotesque, magical, beautiful and tragic; awash with corruption and innocence and terrible poverty and mad decadence. In short, a perfect tribute to Sorrentino’s “dear, awful Naples”. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Lollipop (2024) 100% EDIT “It shows how lifetimes of trauma are compressed into a sob, a whimper, and, just occasionally, helpless gasping laughter.” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Paul and Paulette Take a Bath (2024) 50% EDIT “Ultimately Paul & Paulette is a lot like its leads: handsome, well-intentioned and a little misguided. ” – Sight & Sound Sep 4, 2025 Full Review The Sweet East (2023) 82% EDIT “The Sweet East reveals itself as an undeniably exhilarating ride, surreal and satirical, and not quite of this world. ” – Sight & Sound Apr 2, 2024 Full Review Atlantics (2019) 96% EDIT “Atlantics is not merely social realism. It is far richer, and far stranger, than that.” – Sight & Sound Dec 20, 2019 Full Review Varda by Agnès (2019) 98% EDIT “A gorgeous trip down memory lane and an impeccably presented primer - one that very much smacks of the official version.” – Sight & Sound Jul 20, 2019 Full Review Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno (2017) 59% EDIT “Above all, Mektoub is a terrific study of the fine art of flirting: of girls and girls, and girls and boys (but never, it seems, boys and boys) and the shifts in power that occur between them as they drink, dance, smile and shrug.” – Sight & Sound Feb 16, 2019 Full Review If Not Us, Who? (2011) 78% EDIT “A very welcome addition to the canon of radical-political biographies.” – Sight & Sound Jul 9, 2018 Full Review She Monkeys (2011) 89% EDIT “Crafted with deceptive elegance, riddled with gaps, She Monkeys is a disturbing, provocative work.” – Sight & Sound Jul 9, 2018 Full Review Breathing (2011) 90% EDIT “Much is asked of non-professional actor Thomas Schubert and it is ultimately his performance that raises the film to the level of the sublime.” – Sight & Sound Jul 9, 2018 Full Review Amour (2012) 93% EDIT “What Haneke give us with Amour is a love story, one that is compassionate, powerful and intelligent, and that treats its protagonists and its audiences with respect.” – Sight & Sound Apr 9, 2018 Full Review Call Me by Your Name (2017) 95% EDIT “The camera pays an almost hyperreal attention to detail, poring over certain words and touches with the obsessiveness of an infatuated teenager.” – Sight & Sound Oct 27, 2017 Full Review Toni Erdmann (2016) 93% EDIT “Toni Erdmann is as strange, delightful and dementedly funny as the hype has it. But repeat watching reveals a film that plays first as comedy, then as tragedy.” – Sight & Sound Feb 2, 2017 Full Review Certain Women (2016) 92% EDIT “Powerful, focused, nervy, lean. Certain Women is a work of art produced by a director in full control of her material. It leaves you reeling.” – Sight & Sound Dec 1, 2016 Full Review Phoenix (2014) 98% EDIT “This is cinema at its most ineffable and its most potent.” – Sight & Sound Jan 15, 2016 Full Review Tomorrowland (2015) 49% EDIT “It's a hard heart that would resist Clooney's appeal to his audience to just -- for once -- be amazed.” – Sight & Sound May 28, 2015 Full Review Ida (2013) 95% EDIT “Set in an austere, almost abandoned Poland during the early 1960s, director Pawel Pawlikowski's first feature made in his homeland is a spare, haunting piece of minimalism.” – Sight & Sound Sep 26, 2014 Full Review Free Men (2011) 76% EDIT “It's a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece of filmmaking, which repays repeat viewing.” – Sight & Sound Jun 18, 2012 Full Review We Have a Pope (2012) 66% EDIT “A meditation on the guilt, regret and shame that come with age and acquired wisdom as a pillorying of orthodox hypocrisy.” – Sight & Sound Dec 6, 2011 Full Review Man on Wire (2008) 100% EDIT “The tension builds incrementally, reaching almost unbearable heights at its dizzying climax.” – Sight & Sound Jul 6, 2010 Full Review
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