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Dee O'Donoghue

Dee O'Donoghue's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Fortune's Wheel (2015) EDIT “Fortune's Wheel fuses Dublin's past with its present through engaging perceptions and recollections of an event that shaped a local area and resonates with its community to this day.” – Film Ireland Magazine Apr 5, 2018 Full Review Medicated Milk (2015) EDIT “A must-see.” – Film Ireland Magazine Mar 28, 2018 Full Review The Silent Storm (2014) 28% 1/5 EDIT “While the Scottish landscape has never looked more enticing, sadly, majestic mountains and sweeping seascapes cannot plaster over the uncomfortable cracks in McFarlane's feature debut.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 20, 2016 Full Review Catch Me Daddy (2014) 93% 4/5 EDIT “Daniel Wolfe is quick to delineate the gendered nature of honour killings and a cultural framework that deifies a son and demonises a daughter.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Captive (2015) 28% 2/5 EDIT “The film's reluctance to overinvest in its religious significance will certainly not satisfy the spiritual nor will it come as a welcome relief to the skeptical, placing the overall audience in a state of limbo.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Cake (2014) 49% 2.5/5 EDIT “Despite a formidable and kaleidoscopic performance, there is a sense that the themes of human frailty and the will to heal that inform the film's narrative are beyond Aniston's abilities as a serious dramatic actress.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review By Our Selves (2015) 78% 3.5/5 EDIT “Ktting's gnomic mish mash of audio-visual experimentation is a deeply evocative sensory exploration that fuses the past and the present, the dramatized and the experimental and the simulated and the real...” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) 90% 4/5 EDIT “The tone of the film is analogically morbid and pessimistic and affecting and sanguine, emphasising the axiomatic transitory condition of mortality.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review A Little Chaos (2014) 47% 3/5 EDIT “It is all rather too restraint and temperate an affair, hugely lacking the decadence and opulence of French aristocratic life.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets (2015) 100% 3/5 EDIT “Ultimately, Silver's film does not offer fresh insight into the racial murder of Jordan Davis by Michael Dunn that has not been previously analysed by other media sources.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Danny Collins (2015) 77% 3/5 EDIT “Danny Collins is, at times, an engaging and downright hilarious comedy drama that will have you laughing through the tears but this is simply owing to the sublime performances from its cast...” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Far From the Madding Crowd (2015) 85% 2.5/5 EDIT “Such an inflexible adaptation results in a rather half-hearted screenplay that lacks the energy of its source novel, failing to arouse or thrill on any level.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey (2014) 83% 3.5/5 EDIT “Ariane Labed is a revelation as Alice, whose nuanced yet emotionally charged performance, not only anchors the core narrative but navigates the philosophical subtexts with both a skittish mischievousness and an intense urgency...” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) 25% 1/5 EDIT “While the film is arguably no better or worse than its literary source, it does shatter the fantasies of sexual desire and sexual pleasure constructed within the novel.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Focus (2015) 55% 3/5 EDIT “Regardless of its gleaming production and costume design, smooth technical style and frisky musical score, Focus is largely seductive because Smith and Robbie are the seducers.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Girlhood (2014) 96% 4/5 EDIT “Symptomatic of the national picture, Girlhood is an unflinching portrait into the seething cauldron of interminable chaos created by the fractured social structures in contemporary Paris.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Goodnight Mommy (2014) 85% 4/5 EDIT “Goodnight Mommy employs similar psychological tactics found in film noir and the gothic by arousing the same cultural moods of paranoia and mistrust, which have resulted from a disruption to a seemingly, civilized ideal.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Heaven Adores You (2014) 82% 3/5 EDIT “Rossi may have aroused an appreciation of Smith's music but he may also have unwittingly refuelled more than a traducing interest in his gnomic demise.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Inside Out (2015) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Aware of its own unrivalled mastery within animation filmmaking, Inside Out is a highly self-reflexive, daring and though-provoking feature, which provides a groundbreaking perspective on the narrative evolution within animation itself.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Jupiter Ascending (2015) 27% 2.5/5 EDIT “Jupiter Ascending fails to offer its audiences anything other than a one-dimensional and disappointingly regressive visual saga of sci-fi fantasy and 1950s pulp.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Jurassic World (2015) 72% 4/5 EDIT “Narratively continuous to the original film but slightly disregarding its two sequels, Jurassic World is a spectacular rush of furious energy, spellbinding awe and alarming terror from beginning to end.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Lambert & Stamp (2014) 89% 4/5 EDIT “Cooper's cinematic scrapbook captures a relentless whirlwind of explosive rock history, in which a non-linear narrative and slick cinematography rollicks furiously through the decades, rooting the audience directly in the band's volcanic timeline.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Paper Souls (2013) 40% 2/5 EDIT “Paper Souls suffers from a severe identity crisis.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Strangerland (2015) 40% 2/5 EDIT “A shift in focus from a potentially jittery thriller to a humdrum, psychological analysis of a dislocated family becomes the narrative driving force and given the rich backdrop, it appears a great opportunity has been severely missed.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review Suffragette (2015) 73% 4/5 EDIT “A compelling and propulsive no-holds-barred interpretation, Suffragette does not shy away from accentuating the extreme subversive tactics employed by the bastions of the women's movement in the face of frenzied, brutal opposition.” – Film Ireland Magazine May 12, 2016 Full Review
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