David D'Arcy
David D'Arcy's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Screen International
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Movies reviews only
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Tuya's Marriage (2006) |
Funny, tender, and vividly shot, this delightful comedy is far more satisfying as story and cinema than other features recently shot in Mongolia. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 23, 2020
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Shadows and Lies (2010) |
Anania's rudimentary script, written for Franco, is a weak shell that's awkward for any actor to inhabit. - Screen International
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| Posted Jun 29, 2020
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What Richard Did (2012) |
DP David Grennan and [Lenny] Abrahamson have a fine touch with the volatile ensemble dynamics of kids with high energy, quick tempers and the fragile vulnerability of youth. - indieWire
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| Posted Apr 30, 2020
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Framing John DeLorean (2019) |
The film rarely gives us the private DeLorean, but Framing John DeLorean resonates with American rise-and-fall archetypes - though the parallels are inexact if still illuminating. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jun 14, 2019
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Amazing Grace (2018) |
It's raw religion, and it's a treasure. - Screen International
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| Posted Nov 13, 2018
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The Biggest Little Farm (2018) |
Audiences won't watch it and go back to the land. But they might come back and see it again. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 10, 2018
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Angels Are Made of Light (2018) |
For viewers who adjust to its deliberately slow rhythms, the reward is a vivid portrait of daily life in Kabul and a rich look into childhood from the perspective of children who have every reason to expect the worst. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 05, 2018
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Carmine Street Guitars (2018) |
Tender without sentimentality, the doc by Ron Mann is as absorbing as it is understated. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 04, 2018
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Zoe (2018) |
While the end result is more tender than tech, twists in the script by Richard Greenberg could rope in a young crowd which is drawn to "can-you-top-this" cyber tales. - Screen International
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| Posted Aug 14, 2018
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) |
This latest dutiful and earnest installment... [is] like a roller coaster that you've ridden many times. - Screen International
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| Posted Jun 05, 2018
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State Like Sleep (2018) |
There is not enough in the performances or the script to set it apart from the constant flow of indie crime dramas. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 26, 2018
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To Dust (2018) |
Shawn Snyder's film about a cantor grieving for his wife and pondering her body's decomposition is earnest to the point of piety. It's also bawdy, and at moments, very funny. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 25, 2018
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Mapplethorpe (2018) |
Smith gives us a credible, flawed, gifted Mapplethorpe over two decades, an unlikeable man who hires his brother as an assistant and then torments him. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 24, 2018
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Little Woods (2018) |
Nia DaCosta's heartland tale, rough around some edges, is a promising feature debut. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 24, 2018
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Diane (2018) |
If the intimacy of small town existence is cherished here, there's also an ominous sense of that same life being eroded and undermined. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 23, 2018
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The Seagull (2018) |
The Seagull, Anton Chekhov's classic play about failed hopes and tangled attractions, is solid and satisfying in Michael Mayer's intimate retelling for the screen. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 23, 2018
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Ghostbox Cowboy (2018) |
Stylish, comic and shameless, with a gonzo, midnight movie tone... - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 20, 2018
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Here and Now (Blue Night) (2018) |
In Blue Night, Sarah Jessica Parker pivots to take on a huge challenge, playing a singer in a dark dramatic role. It's ambitious, and she hits some of the right notes, but much of it ends up off-key. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 20, 2018
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Pacific Rim Uprising (2018) |
Face-offs in Siberia and finally on the slopes of Mt. Fuji provide some welcome relief from the sameness of modern cities, the snow and ice adding an appealing new degree of difficulty to the same old fight. - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 20, 2018
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1985 (2018) |
1985 gets the notes right, and its foreboding look takes us back to a dark age. It's a lesson worth remembering. Yet with all the prejudice and pain, the film still feels a lot like a sermon. - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 12, 2018
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Tully (2018) |
Theron will put to rest any doubts about her feel for comedy; the darker the better. - Screen International
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| Posted Jan 26, 2018
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For Ahkeem (2017) |
There's a strong dose of anthropology in this documentary, as the filmmakers construct the small world in which Daje lives and interacts with young people like herself - all black, all poor, mostly fatherless. - Screen International
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| Posted Dec 15, 2017
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Green Green (2012) |
Green White Green is satire, and satire can't be expected to be definitive, yet this is still a satire whose teeth aren't terribly sharp. But it's a film that puts a political conversation in a Nollywood frame. - Screen International
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| Posted Nov 13, 2017
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Guilty (2015) |
Guilty is an epic look at two gruesome killings, made worse by a series of wild miscarriages of justice. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 20, 2017
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Veleno (2017) |
While Veleno draws from a familiar organised crime template, it offers moments of brutality that are all its own. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 16, 2017
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Bitter Flowers (2007) |
Olivier Meys has built a drama around a troubling reality of modern China. It's just as troubling when he and Qi Xi take you inside Lina's complex character. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 16, 2017
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The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful (2017) |
If the title promises a melodrama, this orgy of betrayal certainly is one; yet deft acting and sheer audacity take it beyond standard melodrama fare. - Screen International
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| Posted Oct 16, 2017
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Euphoria (2017) |
Ines and Emilie have tensions between them which are uncomfortably alive, and Langseth's script is a gnawing reminder that, even when the date of death is set, family quarrels and resentments can still be corrosive. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 13, 2017
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Kissing Candice (2017) |
McArdle lurches around the language of the music video in a stylish feature debut. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 13, 2017
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The Brawler (2017) |
While it's no Raging Bull, it is fun, if you're willing to roll with the punches. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 12, 2017
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A Season in France (2017) |
This stolid narrative approach feels appropriate for a film that is as much testimony as it is drama. - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 09, 2017
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This Is Congo (2017) |
A documentary of stunning beauty and tragic violence ... - Screen International
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| Posted Sep 01, 2017
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Tempestad (2016) |
Cerebral and emotional, Tempestad is a road movie fuelled by the memories of unjust punishment. It's a bumpy but illuminating ride. - Screen International
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| Posted May 22, 2017
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The Circle (2017) |
In a field where the new is celebrated, The Circle is about the threat of ceding control of personal data to a business monopoly. Now we've seen it once again, with marquee stars. It's still a threat. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 27, 2017
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Aardvark (2017) |
The drama sets up a psychological dead end, with doleful strings tracking the emotions. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 26, 2017
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Thirst Street (2017) |
Burdge is game for this mania, and so is Bonnard, yet the wild process of love as horror lacks something at its core, as if a young director is trying his hardest to get the notes right and then play them louder. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 24, 2017
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My Friend Dahmer (2017) |
Meyers's drama depends mostly on what it doesn't show you, and it works. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 24, 2017
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Abundant Acreage Available (2017) |
Perhaps MacLachlan was after a visual vocabulary that was as limited as his film's dialogue. In doing so, he's sold his story short. This crop feels like it needed more time to come out of the ground. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 24, 2017
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The Lovers (2017) |
The Lovers is shrewd, even if it's not altogether satisfying. It reveals lots of promise in this young director. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 24, 2017
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The Fate of the Furious (2017) |
This eighth instalment of The Fast And The Furious franchise, directed by F Gary Gray, is reliable, containing plenty of deafening car pile-ups to keep the core audience satisfied while also stirring witty new flourishes into the old recipe. - Screen International
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| Posted Apr 09, 2017
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Gemini (2017) |
There may be Lynchian elements in this classic low-budget LA noir, but it's Lola Kirke who impresses the most. - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 13, 2017
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DRIB (2017) |
This no-budget spoof of violent gonzo promotional culture is in your face, as the saying goes, and the blood is all part of the punch-line. - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 12, 2017
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Death in Sarajevo (2016) |
You come out of Death In Sarajevo feeling that you've slogged through a familiar stretch of mud - filmed competently, but not memorably. - Screen International
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| Posted Mar 01, 2017
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Chasing Coral (2017) |
Chasing Coral is as beautiful as any nature film in its celebration of coral's complexity, and of the undersea architecture that is formed when multiple species of coral create natural multi-level structures of interdependency. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 21, 2017
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From the Balcony (Fra balkongen) (2017) |
It's a hybrid reverie of introspection and free association, with moments of charm and insight. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 20, 2017
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Bones of Contention (2017) |
This chilling documentary revisits the fate of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca, executed in 1936, and of others who are known only to their families. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 20, 2017
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The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov (2017) |
This is not a film that you watch for the style, unless bluntness is your aesthetic. But the details in this intrigue are fascinating. - Screen International
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| Posted Feb 12, 2017
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78/52 (2017) |
Philippe's tribute to Hollywood's most famous stabbing is an archival feast. - Screen International
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| Posted Jan 24, 2017
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Beach Rats (2017) |
Fate is a blunt instrument here. Yet you still wind up asking for more depth from the characters for whom Hittman is asking you to feel something. - Screen International
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| Posted Jan 24, 2017
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Lemon (2017) |
The debut feature by Janicza Bravo takes on a perennial comic genre yet, like its main character, it's best described as a work in progress. - Screen International
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| Posted Jan 23, 2017
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