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DAVE CALHOUN
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• Time Out
• Time Out New York

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Time Out film critic.
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Total Reviews: 197


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Fresh Let's Get Lost
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Fresh Happy-Go-Lucky
Fresh You, The Living
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 79% of the time.

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2/6
 
"This celebration of mid-Atlantic compromise is one for the youngest and most forgiving of teenage girls." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
Wild Child (2008)20%
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2/6
 
"A frustrating, oblique and portentous endurance test." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 15, 2008
 
The Banishment (2007)56%
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2/6
 
"All in all, it’s a bit of a snore that falls back on romance when all else fails." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Death Defying Acts (2008)46%
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3/5
 
"Offers mild, easy pleasures, even if it stalks emotional truths rather than pierces them." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
The Waiting Room (2007)n/a
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5/6
 
"Slowly, surely this composite portrait of Chet then and now (or in 1987, when Weber shot the film) reveals its own depths." -- Time Out
Posted Jun 5, 2008
 
Let's Get Lost (1988)96%
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4/6
 
"A delightful, curious film that indulges in both the personal and the political and provides a potted history of modern Iran through one woman’s experience." -- Time Out
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Persepolis (2007)96%
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5/6
 
"It’s a funny film – a surprise perhaps after ‘Vera Drake’ – and, crucially, it aches with truth." -- Time Out
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)94%
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4/6
 
"You won’t know whether to laugh or cry." -- Time Out
Posted Mar 27, 2008
 
You, The Living (2007)100%
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3/6
 
"Too long, not nearly as funny as it hopes, and some plot elements (what’s with the sheep?) are extraneous to the improvised mood." -- Time Out
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Mister Lonely (2008)44%
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4/6
 
"Languid, sorrowful and strange, French filmmaker Céline Sciamma’s debut as a feature writer-director is a sensitive and daring portrait of female adolescence that’s curious about all longings, sexual confusions and grey areas of desire." -- Time Out
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Water Lilies (2007)78%
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2/6
 
"Why in the name of ermine boleros would anyone make such a dull, coy and, worst of all, pretty film about Anne Boleyn?" -- Time Out
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)42%
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3/6
 
"Baumbach’s interest in families – a distinct Baumbachian sort of family – is acute and his observations often painful and delivered with a dry wit." -- Time Out
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
Margot at the Wedding (2007)51%
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3/6
 
"This is grand-scale studio-work at its most beguiling." -- Time Out
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)86%
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4/6
 
"There’s something Styxian about the road travelled here that’s reinforced with imagery of death that elevates Ghobadi’s tale above the everyday." -- Time Out
Posted Jan 4, 2008
 
Half Moon: A Musician's Last Journey (2007)100%
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3/6
 
"A build-up of secrecy and anxiety are well-served by Van Sant’s chopped-up narrative of the slow reveal, and again the director shows a keen eye for the rituals and worries of teenage life." -- Time Out
Posted Dec 28, 2007
 
Paranoid Park (2008)75%
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3/6
 
"No laughs – but still plenty to like in this diverting and insightful thriller that plays out in the higher echelons of the French judiciary and Parisian world of high business." -- Time Out
Posted Dec 13, 2007
 
Comedy of Power (2005)80%
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3/6
 
"Ample music – Oasis, of course – and sweeping crane-shots over miserable two-up-two-downs plead for cinematic and social relevance but, really, this is what it is: an hour-and-a-half spent willingly at the side of a fascinating fella." -- Time Out
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
A Very British Gangster (2006)n/a
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5/6
 
"One of the most shocking, unexpected and daring finales in a long while." -- Time Out
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
Silent Night (2006)91%
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2/6
 
"Clumsily shoehorns every hot topic under the sun into a digitally shot drama of high aims, middling production values and low intelligence." -- Time Out
Posted Nov 29, 2007
 
Infinite Justice (2006)43%
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2/6
 
"It’s the sort of glamour-meets-violence drugs-crime story on which lads’ mags thrive: unqualified, over-reverent and hysterical." -- Time Out
Posted Nov 22, 2007
 
Cocaine Cowboys (2006)69%
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3/6
 
"For all Anderson’s pleasing, refreshing auteur tendencies, the overwhelming feeling delivered by ‘The Darjeeling Limited’ is of frustration, déjà vu and little progression." -- Time Out
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)67%
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"Sokurov applies a thoughtful, humanist spin to the Chechen war – or any war – in this quiet mediation." -- Time Out
Posted Nov 17, 2007
 
Alexandra (2008)94%
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4/6
 
"David Sington more than makes up for the straightforward nature of his film with the quality of its interviews and plenitude of staggering archive footage." -- Time Out
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)94%
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"The filmmakers must have imagined sparky, engaging conversation between these duos similar to a high-speed tennis bout between skillful pros; what emerges is more comparable to a lazy afternoon table-tennis knockabout in an old people’s home." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 23, 2007
 
Lions for Lambs (2007)28%
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"This exploration of grief in contemporary South Korea plods along adequately and intelligently." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 20, 2007
 
Secret Sunshine ()92%
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4/6
 
"The occasional voiceover from Béart and a slightly mournful score from Philippe Sarde offer some sense of lament, but mostly this unfolds in the moment and is urgent and engaging." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Witnesses (2003)90%
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"Themes of altruism and selfishness colour the harrowing realism; the camerawork is skilful, with many scenes unfolding in one, locked frame; and the performances are superb." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 13, 2007
 
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008)97%
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Posted Oct 13, 2007
 
Import/Export (2007)60%
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5/6
 
"An extraordinary puzzle of a biography that's ripe to be decoded." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 11, 2007
 
I'm Not There (2007)78%
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"That [director] Schroeder doesn't offer simple explanations gives his tale honesty and fascination." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 11, 2007
 
Terror's Advocate (2007)84%
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Posted Oct 11, 2007
 
California Dreamin' (Endless) (2007)n/a
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5/6
 
"Stefan Ruzowitzky’s meshing of plot with debate is impressive. His film is compelling and clever." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 10, 2007
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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"A claustrophobic and imaginative treat." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 6, 2007
 
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)94%
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4/6
 
"Some of the accusations in this documentary by a pair of Canadian filmmakers who initially set out to make a positive portrait, will make your eyes water." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
Manufacturing Dissent (2007)52%
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1/6
 
"A terrifically stupid film. Dumb, dumb, dumb." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
The Kingdom (2007)51%
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"It’s certainly a moving film, and many will find its close examination of a father-son relationship particularly cathartic and reflective." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008)73%
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4/6
 
"Suicide and the lives of artists are two of the toughest subjects for cinema to grapple with, and ‘Control’ squares up bravely to both." -- Time Out
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
Control (2007)88%
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1/6
 
"Taymor has mistaken a deeply clichéd view of the late ’60s for a radical slice of the zeitgeist. Let it be." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
Across the Universe (2007)54%
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2/6
 
"Spector, who’s a fluid, straightforward director, resists the crutch of music until the final scene when he goes and blows it all by playing something stupid like… a Gary Barlow song." -- Time Out
Posted Sep 7, 2007
 
Someone Else (2006)50%
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4/6
 
"Partly a study of cross-national relationships and partly a homecoming comedy on Delpy’s part, ‘Two Days in Paris’ neatly balances stabs at both America and the French." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 31, 2007
 
2 Days In Paris (2007)87%
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4/6
 
"Black comedy with a subtle political edge." -- Time Out
Posted Aug 17, 2007
 
12:08 East of Bucharest (2007)95%
 No Rating  
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
The Future Of Food (2005)84%
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
The Reception (2005)71%
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2005)68%
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Kicking and Screaming (2005)43%
 No Rating  
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Hustle & Flow (2005)82%
 No Rating  
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Last Days (2005)60%
 No Rating  
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Rock School (2005)82%
 No Rating  
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
The Great Water (2005)71%
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Posted Aug 16, 2007
 
Invisible (2005)n/a

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