Rory O'Connor

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage Sep 8, 2026 There are more than a few great filmmakers working today with the ability to make this kind of material sing, but I sense Zeller’s talents lie elsewhere. Go to Full Review Bunker (2026) 51% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage Sep 7, 2026 A crystal-clear tale about friendship and creativity that feels closer to the lineage of Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman. Go to Full Review Look Back (2026) 90% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage Sep 6, 2026 Another novelistic gem, the kind of richly detailed and intricately scripted yarn in which alluring themes like class, sex, and sociology are always on the table to be picked at. Go to Full Review Possible Love (2026) 100% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage Sep 4, 2026 Whether it’s depicting the most interesting, baffling, or eccentric aspects of this intoxicating business, Dweck and Kershaw (who are both American) remain resolutely curious about and endeared by it. Go to Full Review Burgundy (2026) - - - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage Sep 3, 2026 Greene invites us into the movie with a rhythmically edited flourish—all staccato nail-gun shots and left-right jabs in the boxing gym—before allowing things to slump as traumas and tragedies emerge in the second act. Go to Full Review Too Much Sugar (2026) 91% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage Sep 3, 2026 The most surprising thing about Ink is how optimistic it is in its early moments, when the slate was clean and the outsiders (mostly working-class men and women) were finally given a seat at the table. Go to Full Review Ink (2026) 72% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage Aug 25, 2026 Okonedo has come to Directors’ Fortnight with another standout turn in Clarissa, a funny and formally adventurous adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway set in modern-day Nigeria. Go to Full Review Clarissa (2026) 96% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage May 24, 2026 At 161 minutes and with numerous scenes of overlapping dialogue, this is a film that requests your time and attention, but it builds to one of those closing sequences that both clarifies and alchemises everything that’s come before. Go to Full Review The Dreamed Adventure (2026) 95% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage May 21, 2026 The period accuracy here is even more immersive and lovingly crafted than what Sachs achieved in his previous work, but it never quite captures its subject with the same level of detail. Go to Full Review The Man I Love (2026) 93% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage May 20, 2026 A sun-dappled film about death and love that might be the best in Cannes this year. Go to Full Review Everytime (2026) 96% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage May 19, 2026 With the film’s wafer-thin plot and essentially non-existent characters, however, the one-time enfant terrible’s first feature in a decade has little to defend itself against the creeping sense of perfume-advert vapidity—or, worse still, AI slop. Go to Full Review Her Private Hell (2026) 40% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage May 16, 2026 [Martelli's] debut feature, Chile ‘76, examined the psychology of a middle-class woman as she engaged with a political moment she’d spent her life trying to avoid. In a way, the hero of The Meltdown goes through that process in reverse. Go to Full Review The Meltdown (2026) 88% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage May 15, 2026 This is a movie that promises and delivers scenes of copious drug taking and gross-out comedy, but its third-act emotional payoff is as earned and devastating as the best of them. Go to Full Review Club Kid (2026) 100% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage May 14, 2026 When Schoenbrun does decide to stare back into the void, however, their ability to cast a dark spell on the viewer is surely unrivaled in contemporary cinema. Go to Full Review Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 94% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage May 14, 2026 Mileage may vary, but when it comes time for these uneven storylines to reach their climactic moment, the lack of time spent with Marat’s insecurities leaves the movie’s key scene feeling rushed at best, at worst gratuitous. Go to Full Review Butterfly Jam (2026) 46% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage Apr 23, 2026 The rare film that begins with mundane clarity and works its way back, leaving you with the knottier stuff of life. Go to Full Review Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025) 95% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage Feb 23, 2026 Home Stories is about as uneven as it is ambitious—a film with specificity and something to say, not least in terms of the director’s political worldview. Go to Full Review Home Stories (2026) - - - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage Feb 23, 2026 In this milieu, Schanelec weaves a series of characters and conversations using dialogue that sounds dry, even stilted at times, but also often gives way to moments of real poetry and emotion. Go to Full Review My Wife Cries (2026) - - - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage Feb 19, 2026 Hüller is magnificent in a role that relies heavily on her abilities as a physical performer. Go to Full Review Rose (2026) 97% - -

Rory O'Connor The Film Stage Feb 18, 2026 Whether or not you agree with the characterization, Queen at Sea is still well worth seeing, and not just for Courtenay’s performance. Go to Full Review Queen at Sea (2026) 91% - -