Sheila O'Malley
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game (2022) |
"Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game" is strictly low stakes. This is part of its knowing charm. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Mar 17, 2023
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Unwelcome (2022) |
Some of "Unwelcome" is legitimately creepy and upsetting. Some of it is hilarious. Whether or not the hilarity is intended is unclear. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Mar 10, 2023
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Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023) |
There are elements of parody, but "Operation Fortune" is not broad enough to be a spoof. It's weirdly empty. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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The Quiet Girl (2022) |
The film works by stealth. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Feb 23, 2023
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Emily (2022) |
[An] imaginative leap. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Feb 18, 2023
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Seriously Red (2021) |
The exploration is deep, very deep, so much so that one could easily imagine a much darker and edgier film could have been the result. As it is, "Seriously Red" sneaks up on you. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Feb 10, 2023
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Baby Ruby (2022) |
[Baby Ruby] operates at a high-pitched melodrama-horror level, and the constant frenzy becomes exhausting. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Feb 03, 2023
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When You Finish Saving the World (2022) |
The characters are broadly drawn and mostly broadly played, so much so that the film plays like a skit about clueless do-gooder liberals. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jan 25, 2023
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Saint Omer (2022) |
What a powerful film. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb (2022) |
An engaging documentary about a famous editor-writer partnership. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jan 04, 2023
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Women Talking (2022) |
Sarah Polley's trust in the material—and her actors—allows for the performances to flourish, and the performances drive the story along with the barrage of words. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Dec 23, 2022
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Retrograde (2022) |
Retrograde is a deeply mournful film, and the focus on humans is why. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Dec 08, 2022
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The Eternal Daughter (2022) |
The Eternal Daughter feels like a first draft, or a sketch to be filled in later ... Hogg's outlines, though, are more interesting than other people's finished products. There's always so much to think about. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Dec 02, 2022
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Lady Chatterley's Lover (2022) |
The film shimmers and breathes, leaving space for discovery. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Nov 24, 2022
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There There (2022) |
There There doesn't come to life, even as an intellectual or artistic exercise. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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Something In The Dirt (2022) |
Something in the Dirt has the gritty DIY-vibe of the no-budget world from which it sprang, and is both thought-provoking and crazy-making, just like the mood it presents. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Nov 09, 2022
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I'm Totally Fine (2022) |
The best sci-fi illuminates darker corners of the human condition and screenwriter Alisha Ketry has crafted a sci-fi context illustrating the destabilizing experience of grief in thought-provoking ways. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Nov 04, 2022
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Call Jane (2022) |
[Nagy] is sensitive to the details, and sensitive to what the story needs. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Oct 28, 2022
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Aftersun (2022) |
An act of imaginative empathy. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Oct 21, 2022
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The Loneliest Boy in the World (2022) |
The film relies too heavily on cliche and hopes the audience won't notice. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Oct 14, 2022
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Stay the Night (2022) |
Jeyapalan's two actors, with sparkling chemistry between them, allow their characters to emerge, tentatively, towards a connection. It's such a pleasure to watch this relationship develop. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Oct 07, 2022
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Sirens (2022) |
A collage of yearning, ambition, and what can only be called gumption. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Sep 30, 2022
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The Justice of Bunny King (2021) |
[Essie Davis] outdoes herself. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Sep 23, 2022
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True Things (2021) |
For those of you who miss films made by adults and for adults, films which treat things like sex and loneliness with respect and honesty, True Things isn't to be missed. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Sep 09, 2022
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We Are As Gods (2021) |
We Are as Gods works best as a history lesson as seen through one man's journey. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Sep 06, 2022
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The Cathedral (2022) |
The Cathedral marries form to content in a striking way. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Sep 02, 2022
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Something, Anything (2014) |
It’s really something, how Harrill pulls this off. - The Sheila Variations
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| Posted Aug 29, 2022
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Funny Pages (2022) |
Funny Pages has a startlingly anti-inspirational attitude, while still being wrapped in the trappings of an inspirational movie. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Aug 26, 2022
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Spin Me Round (2022) |
Every scene is interesting, and the film is often quite funny, but Nick's world is so seemingly dark and twisted, it's difficult to reconcile the two halves. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Aug 19, 2022
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Emily the Criminal (2022) |
An extremely impressive piece of work. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Aug 12, 2022
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What Josiah Saw (2021) |
The family trauma is so clotted-thick, a faster pace and tightened-up editing might have eradicated the slow-motion underwater feel of the whole. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Aug 04, 2022
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Resurrection (2022) |
A diabolically intense psychological thriller, with two riveting central performances from Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jul 28, 2022
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How to Please a Woman (2022) |
Once the story settles in and the company is up and running, comedy and profundity ensue. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jul 25, 2022
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She Will (2021) |
It has its creepy moments, particularly in the visual collages and Clint Mansell's unnerving score, but it's more thought-provoking than scary. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jul 15, 2022
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Both Sides of the Blade (2021) |
Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon [give] two tremendous performances. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jul 08, 2022
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Clara Sola (2021) |
A powerful and intuitive piece of work. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jul 01, 2022
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) |
It's a relief to see a film so frank about sex, and so open to sex's complexities, especially when so much of current cinema is sexless to a disheartening degree. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jun 17, 2022
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Lost Illusions (2021) |
The cast is excellent overall, with Lacoste and Dolan as the standouts. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jun 10, 2022
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Watcher (2022) |
A chilly and elegant thriller. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Jun 03, 2022
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Dinner in America (2020) |
A movie with anti-establishment anti-social quicksilver coursing through its veins, but at its heart it is a sweet love story, one of the sweetest in recent memory. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted May 27, 2022
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The Valet (2022) |
The Valet is entertaining, thanks mostly to the talented cast, but it tries to do way too much. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted May 20, 2022
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All My Puny Sorrows (2021) |
While the adaptation is, in many ways, quite skilled, the pace of All My Puny Sorrows is so stately, and the overall tone so reserved, that it results in an emotionally muted film. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted May 03, 2022
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Anaïs in Love (2021) |
A humorous and alert lead performance from Anaïs Demoustier. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Apr 29, 2022
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Stanleyville (2021) |
It's almost like the script is playing cat-and-mouse with us, and sometimes the broad characters are a little predictable. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Apr 22, 2022
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Dual (2022) |
The film insists on avoiding the deeper psychological and even existential implications of its own tale, implications present in the narrative but somehow skipped over or ignored. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Apr 15, 2022
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Aline (2020) |
As biopics go, setting aside the Uncanny Valley, Aline is fairly innocuous, and it makes all the same mistakes most biopics make. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Apr 08, 2022
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The Bubble (2022) |
The film is best in its embrace of the random, its moments when the talented and funny cast goof off with each other, responding to one another's eccentricities. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Apr 01, 2022
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You Are Not My Mother (2021) |
An extremely confident directorial debut. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Mar 24, 2022
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Calendar Girl (2020) |
An engaging and sneakily profound film. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Mar 08, 2022
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Huda's Salon (2021) |
Huda's Salon does not stop for one second to take a breath, and the subjects revealed have enormous and urgent philosophical reverb. - RogerEbert.com
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| Posted Mar 05, 2022
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