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Rory O'Connor

Rory O'Connor's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Tokyo Taxi (2025) EDIT “A middlebrow crowdpleaser that’s elevated by two seasoned lead performances—in other words, exactly what it needs to be.” – The Film Stage Feb 6, 2026 Full Review The Last One for the Road (2025) EDIT “ It might slip into Alexander Payne territory at times––there are a few moments when the trio drive in contented silence––yet if Last One is Sossai’s Sideways, it’s a version with two Jacks and no Miles. ” – The Film Stage Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Anniversary (2025) 66% EDIT “This ruthlessly effective thriller rarely beats around the bush with what it’s trying to say, nor does it ask its famous actors to rein in their performances––despite occasionally needing to––but it certainly hits its mark with unnerving accuracy.” – The Film Stage Oct 15, 2025 Full Review With Hasan in Gaza (2025) 100% EDIT “The new documentary With Hasan in Gaza––a poignant, meditative portrait of a city now fighting for its life––works as both a travelogue and time machine.” – The Film Stage Sep 7, 2025 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% EDIT “Van Sant imagines this tale in a way that echoes Dog Day Afternoon: an unhinged and stranger-than-fiction fable about good intentions gone wrong. It’s kind of a hoot.” – The Film Stage Sep 5, 2025 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 87% EDIT “In The Testament of Ann Lee, Amanda Seyfried gives the finest performance of her career. ” – The Film Stage Sep 5, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% EDIT “A House of Dynamite is a scarier, less preachy movie than the likes of Don’t Look Up, but it’s no less didactic or unsubtle in what it’s trying to say.” – The Film Stage Sep 3, 2025 Full Review The Smashing Machine (2025) 70% EDIT “Regardless of its flaws, this is an interesting place to be: the kind of movie that is certainly worth seeing, if one I can’t say I’m fully convinced by. ” – The Film Stage Sep 1, 2025 Full Review Dracula (2025) 68% EDIT “A little too smug and self-indulgent, Dracula takes a whopping 186 minutes to make its point; while fans of the director’s more farcical tendencies might find a way into its rhythms, I struggled giving it the benefit of the doubt. ” – The Film Stage Aug 15, 2025 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% EDIT “Theirs is a style that’s no longer in-fashion and which we will miss when it’s gone.” – The Film Stage Jun 4, 2025 Full Review The President's Cake (2025) 100% EDIT “Amazingly, the film’s grace notes––its moments of levity, its filmic style (credit to DP Tudor Vladimir Panduru), its dark humor––detract little from its political bite.” – The Film Stage Jun 3, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% EDIT “From its gorgeous, sylvan landscapes and autumnal color palette to the patient, observational tone, it suggests what robbing art in the early part of the 1970s might have truly felt like.” – The Film Stage May 25, 2025 Full Review Heads or Tails? (2025) 91% EDIT “It’s another gorgeous demonstration of craft, a film to ease into, even if it never quite musters Crab‘s sense of dramatic stakes and momentum. ” – The Film Stage May 22, 2025 Full Review Romería (2025) 86% EDIT “Romería has scope, a clear sense of place and personal history, and the unmistakable glimmers of inner life.” – The Film Stage May 21, 2025 Full Review Urchin (2025) 96% EDIT “In Urchin, Dickinson blends issue-driven social realism (a British staple) with the trendier look of a Safdie film: all medium shots, real streets, non-professionals, and the occasional trip down a colorful drain.” – The Film Stage May 20, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “I would say it’s this director’s weakest film, but when you’ve never made a bad one that probably doesn’t say a lot.” – The Film Stage May 18, 2025 Full Review Renoir (2025) 87% EDIT “Renoir is a coming-of-age story that will be familiar to fans of Hirokazu Kore-eda, but there’s little (if any) of his sentimentality here. ” – The Film Stage May 18, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% EDIT “At best, Nouvelle Vague is the kind of movie that emboldens people to make films themselves, and even more so, to adopt filmmaking as a way of life. A” – The Film Stage May 18, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 69% EDIT “I couldn’t wait for it to be over and I can’t wait to see it again.” – The Film Stage May 17, 2025 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 93% EDIT “[Laxe's] grandest, most adventurous work yet: the kind of bold, auteurist arrival that seems to happen more here [at Cannes] than any other festival.” – The Film Stage May 17, 2025 Full Review The Heirloom (2024) B EDIT “Much like Milly, Petrie’s film works itself into a charmingly anxious mood. ” – The Film Stage Mar 11, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% 3/5 EDIT “Bong has delivered an uneven but chaotically entertaining film about a world where brutal subjugations aren’t necessarily forced upon us, but rather one where we’ve stooped so low as to opt in.” – SciFiNow Feb 24, 2025 Full Review What Does that Nature Say to You (2025) 100% EDIT “The closest he has yet come to remaking Meet the Parents.” – The Film Stage Feb 22, 2025 Full Review The Blue Trail (2025) 100% EDIT “With Blue Trail, Mascaro returns to a similarly dystopian future, but this time the world of his film feels lived-in, nuanced, unmistakably human.” – The Film Stage Feb 21, 2025 Full Review Kontinental '25 (2025) 95% EDIT “Kontinental was always going to have the whiff of a b-side about it, but this is a rich and substantial work. Taking Romania’s housing crisis as a central theme, it bombards the viewer with triggers, sight gags, and juxtapositions. ” – The Film Stage Feb 19, 2025 Full Review
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