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Dave Calhoun

Dave Calhoun's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Time Out film critic.

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The Secret Agent (2025) 98% 4/5 EDIT “The Secret Agent is vicious and vivid in its sense of place and danger. But it also has a streak of weirdness and offers a very human take on the political-crime thriller genre.” – Time Out May 21, 2025 Full Review The Little Sister (2025) 83% 4/5 EDIT “It’s not the sort of film about liberation that has you punching the air or swelling regularly with deep feelings, but it’s so often beautifully observed and told with great care and compassion.” – Time Out May 21, 2025 Full Review Bono: Stories of Surrender (2025) 75% 3/5 EDIT “This good-natured hagiography isn’t anywhere near free of pomposity, but even Bono seems to know when it’s best just to keep quiet and move on.” – Time Out May 21, 2025 Full Review Renoir (2025) 87% 4/5 EDIT “It’s as interesting for what it doesn’t show as for what it does. This is a story of terminal illness, but it exists in and around the main events rather than depicting them head-on. It’s a tender, loose and slightly whimsical tale.” – Time Out May 21, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 5/5 EDIT “It’s a deeply raw and honest film. It’s bleak, but it also has a musical, black-comic, big-hearted spirit that pulls you through the despair.” – Time Out May 21, 2025 Full Review Away (2019) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Away has the mild rush of a coming-of-age dream, the sort that lodges in your memory as symbolic and significant as you pass from one stage of life to the next.” – Time Out Mar 1, 2025 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a film of deep empathy, but a tough one, too. Leigh and his collaborators don’t have any easy answers as to why Pansy is this way, or if she’ll ever be different. What they leave us with is a character who’s richly and roundly drawn.” – Time Out Dec 6, 2024 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% 5/5 EDIT “It shouldn’t all be so funny, but it is, and it’s to Baker’s huge credit that he’s able to inspire laughs and huge enjoyment from this madcap story without leaving you feeling that the woman at the heart of this mess has been short-changed.” – Time Out Sep 30, 2024 Full Review The Shrouds (2024) 75% 3/5 EDIT “It’s a film of bold ideas and moments of terrific atmosphere and visual power, but those strengths are often neutered by a lack of storytelling precision, with various strands coming and going. ” – Time Out May 21, 2024 Full Review Lula (2024) 64% 3/5 EDIT “It’s an uncomplicated celebration, and if you approach it on that basis, it does the trick just fine.” – Time Out May 21, 2024 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% 3/5 EDIT “Anyone who shares Lanthimos’s pleasure at swatting his humans like flies will surely extract wry pleasure from it.” – Time Out May 21, 2024 Full Review Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024) 63% 3/5 EDIT “As history, I’d take this account with a pinch of salt -- it feels too enamoured by certain elements of its antihero’s story and blinkered to others -- but as an exercise in capturing the man’s self-engineered legend, it’s energetic and engrossing.” – Time Out May 21, 2024 Full Review Caught by the Tides (2024) 99% 4/5 EDIT “This dreamy, arresting, dialogue-light latest from Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke is a poetic, musical and reflective portrait of one woman’s journey to find an old lover.” – Time Out May 21, 2024 Full Review Bird (2024) 86% 4/5 EDIT “If ever a film puts its arm round a kid and says: ‘Don’t worry, I’ve got you’, that’s "Bird" and Bailey. She’s a character you feel Arnold would lie on railtracks to protect – and that’s a powerful, moving instinct to share. ” – Time Out May 21, 2024 Full Review Monster (2023) 97% 4/5 EDIT “As you’d expect from Kore-eda, it’s all told with the utmost detail and care, and a gentle score from the late Ryuichi Sakamoto only adds to the overarching air of thoughtfulness and empathy.” – Time Out Dec 7, 2023 Full Review May December (2023) 91% 4/5 EDIT “The dance between the two women – both friendly and threatening – is compelling. ” – Time Out May 25, 2023 Full Review Fallen Leaves (2023) 97% 4/5 EDIT “It’s a low-key treat with moments of real bliss.” – Time Out May 25, 2023 Full Review About Dry Grasses (2023) 92% 4/5 EDIT “About Dry Grasses is as serious as you’d expect from Ceylan, but there’s also a self-reflective, playful angle to this one, and a seam of black humour that’s been missing from his recent films. ” – Time Out May 25, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) 71% 3/5 EDIT “It’s adventure, though, that everyone really wants from an Indiana Jones movie, and on that front it delivers... Add to that the rousing familiarity of John Williams’s score, and it all amounts to a comforting if not especially challenging reboot.” – Time Out May 25, 2023 Full Review Youth (Spring) (2023) 86% 4/5 EDIT “Youth (Spring) is a rare window into a world of life and work that might be specific but has clear echoes in scenarios the world over.” – Time Out May 25, 2023 Full Review The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% 5/5 EDIT “It’s provocative in a deeply intelligent way.” – Time Out May 25, 2023 Full Review Master (2022) 75% 3/5 EDIT “This is a smart, meaningful first film, with nods all over the place to classics like The Shining and Rosemary's Baby, as well as more recent obvious touch points like Get Out. It's not all subtle, but then neither is prejudice.” – Time Out Jan 31, 2022 Full Review Fire of Love (2022) 98% 4/5 EDIT “This film is about wonder, not balance, and it turns us delirious in the white heat of this pair's chaotic, unflinching passion.” – Time Out Jan 24, 2022 Full Review Parallel Mothers (2021) 96% 5/5 EDIT “As ever with Almodóvar's films, to enter his world is a pleasure - even when we're faced with pain and tough lessons.” – Time Out Jan 14, 2022 Full Review Only the Animals (2019) 93% 4/5 EDIT “The film's emotional side is well-handled, helped by strong performances across the board. But it's the storytelling puzzle - the pile-up of different perspectives and gradual reveal of the facts - that makes it most worthwhile.” – Time Out Dec 7, 2021 Full Review
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