Charlotte O'Sullivan
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Rye Lane (2023) |
Though Rye Lane was made with Disney money, the vibe is more indie-movie/Channel 4 sitcom than slick blockbuster – with a bit of screwball comedy thrown in. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Mar 17, 2023
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Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) |
... The sense of wonder has gone. Oh yeah, and the product placement is shameless. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Mar 17, 2023
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) |
Director Ken Kwapis glosses up the stories unnecessarily and the final reel is feelgood cliché all the way. All credit to the girls. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Mar 13, 2023
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Champions (2023) |
The film may be meh. Its young cast is mighty. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Mar 09, 2023
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Scream VI (2023) |
Bloody hell. Number 6 in the post-modern horror Scream series is gory... as well as hot-under-the-arms tense and properly funny. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Mar 08, 2023
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Close (2022) |
If you find it cathartic to sob over well-drawn characters, this sad tale is within hugging distance of being an absolute joy. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Mar 03, 2023
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What's Love Got to Do with It? (2022) |
An impressive feature debut from Khan. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Cocaine Bear (2023) |
While watching Cocaine Bear, you can actually feel your IQ level tumbling. Yep, it was right up my alley. I yawned through the first act, but spent the next hour either gasping or giggling. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Feb 24, 2023
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The Son (2022) |
Nicholas’s pain should overwhelm us. It doesn’t, because it’s not allowed to. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Feb 17, 2023
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) |
If you can ignore the convoluted plot – not, sadly, a rarity in the increasingly complex Marvel Cinematic Universe – you’ll have a blast with these characters. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Feb 14, 2023
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Blue Jean (2022) |
Fit to stand alongside My Beautiful Laundrette and Pride, Oakley’s brilliant film offers hope to anyone who doesn’t feel they fit in and are trapped in a hostile environment. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Feb 09, 2023
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Knock at the Cabin (2023) |
There are so many plot holes. The deeper issue, though, is that the supposedly complex home-invaders aren’t given enough space to become interesting. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Feb 07, 2023
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) |
Even if you know nothing about Goldin's groundbreaking photographs and slide shows you'll be mesmerised by her gravelly voice, seen-it-all mien, and curly red hair. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Jan 25, 2023
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The Fabelmans (2022) |
Spielberg has realised that fables come in all shapes and sizes. In this hilarious and heart-breaking gem, small really is beautiful. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Jan 25, 2023
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Babylon (2022) |
Babylon is a disaster of biblical proportions, precisely because it had so much potential. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Jan 20, 2023
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Alice, Darling (2022) |
Alice, Darling could do with a proper third act, and first-time director Mary Nighy, looking for fresh angles in her lake location, doesn’t always find them. But, if you can manage your expectations, the film is abundantly rewarding... - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Jan 20, 2023
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M3GAN (2022) |
M3GAN may have silly and predictable moments, but its status as a queer/feminist classic is assured. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Jan 13, 2023
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Tár (2022) |
This is the bleakest and funniest film about systemic sleaze since Promising Young Woman. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Jan 11, 2023
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Till (2022) |
Chukwu prefers humans to saints and fluid film-making is her thing.
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| Posted Jan 10, 2023
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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) |
If Austin Butler's Elvis is the king of that crop, [Naomi Ackie's] Whitney is indisputably the queen. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 21, 2022
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The Amazing Maurice (2022) |
... A breezy little film, about how it’s cool to be a rat. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 16, 2022
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) |
Plot-wise, this movie is treading water. But that’s fine, because the water’s lovely. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 13, 2022
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The Silent Twins (2022) |
What this singular film captures so well is that the sisters, far from being silent, had plenty to say. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 09, 2022
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White Noise (2022) |
If the third act offers less to shout about (significantly different from the book, it manages to be both pretentious and facile), the finale puts things right. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Dec 02, 2022
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Violent Night (2022) |
David Harbour's slick new action movie combines slaughter and sleighbells. It's brazenly amoral and outrageously sappy. Thanks to the Stranger Things star, it's also a blast. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Nov 30, 2022
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Aftersun (2022) |
I had my top-five-movies-of-the-year list all sorted. Now - boom! - I’ve had to start from scratch. Damn you, Mescal, for being the cornerstone of something so beautiful. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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Aisha (2022) |
Wright’s portrait of everyday heroism is stunning. It won’t earn her a Best Actress Oscar (films this low-budget don’t get noticed by the Academy). But that doesn’t make her work any less impressive. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Nov 18, 2022
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No Bears (2022) |
Panahi covered similar ground in This Is Not a Film, Taxi and 3 Faces, but No Bears has an urgency all of its own. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Nov 09, 2022
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) |
This riotously poetic, serenely political and spectacularly cathartic yarn is the best blockbuster of the year. 2022 isn’t about Maverick anymore. It’s about mavericks. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Nov 08, 2022
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Living (2022) |
Nighy deserves big love at all the awards ceremonies that matter in 2023. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Nov 02, 2022
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Black Adam (2022) |
The film promotes Arab Spring-style insurrections, condemns imperialism and, at the same time, demands that we lighten up. Bold, stylish, involving and witty, it’s quite the package. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Oct 19, 2022
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She Said (2022) |
A marvel. It’s not smug or preachy and gives space to the non-glamorous figures, many of them men, who helped Twohey and Kantor in their quest. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Oct 14, 2022
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Emily (2022) |
E mma Mackey is splendiferous in this frequently scintillating and teen-friendly biopic about Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë. That said, much about Frances O’Connor’s directing debut is disappointing. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Oct 14, 2022
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) |
A stone cold classic. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Oct 14, 2022
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Halloween Ends (2022) |
Better than the last one, but still feels like the work of two totally different directors. And one of those directors is a moron. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Oct 14, 2022
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The Whale (2022) |
The real sin is that Aronofsky only has eyes for Charlie’s flesh and completely fails to notice that Charlie, like all the characters in this movie, is paper thin. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Oct 13, 2022
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Women Talking (2022) |
Even more incredible, given the subject matter, is that so much of what this group say and do, as they gather in a hayloft, is insouciant and funny. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Oct 13, 2022
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Bones and All (2022) |
During and after this movie my brain felt scrambled and I wanted to be sick. I have no wish to see it again. But, (count those stars) it’s an absolute triumph... - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Oct 08, 2022
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The Wonder (2022) |
F lorence Pugh’s acting is the miracle we take for granted. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Oct 08, 2022
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The Woman King (2022) |
Yes, the Woman King could be filed under wish-fulfilment, but that’s true of so many action classics. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Oct 07, 2022
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Amsterdam (2022) |
Pills and perversity have always brought out the best in Russell. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Oct 07, 2022
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Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022) |
The best moments are extraordinary and Thompson’s Trunchbull will haunt my dreams, quite possibly for ever. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Oct 05, 2022
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022) |
This is the kind of flick you can imagine Homer Simpson happily watching on TV, right up until the point where Chickie decides to do “less drinking, more thinking”. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Sep 28, 2022
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) |
Mrs Harris Goes to Paris could never be mistaken for a Ken Loach polemic. But whilst showing us a lot of pretty frocks, it gets awfully close to giving the finger to feudalism. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Sep 28, 2022
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Don't Worry Darling (2022) |
Ignore the group think. Wilde (who dazzles in a supporting role) is a misunderstood genius and her sly erotic thriller is one of the best films of the year. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Sep 23, 2022
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Moonage Daydream (2022) |
H ow do you make David Bowie boring? By treating him like an oracle. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Sep 15, 2022
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Ticket to Paradise (2022) |
If you’re in the mood for a great escape, you’ve basically just won the lottery. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Sep 15, 2022
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The Lost King (2022) |
The Lost King is a drama that will cause more drama. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Sep 10, 2022
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Crimes of the Future (2022) |
Brecken and Timlin are such good characters. And Stewart’s febrile delivery makes every scene she’s in feel urgent. Which is satisfying on so many levels. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Sep 07, 2022
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See How They Run (2022) |
[Ronan's] always had perfect timing, but we’ve never filed her under “laugh a minute”. See How They Run will change that. - London Evening Standard
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| Posted Sep 07, 2022
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