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Conor O'Donnell

Conor O'Donnell's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “With bittersweetness, Avatar: Fire and Ash closes a chapter on big filmmaking at a time when the maximalist spirit and cinematic frontiersmanship of James Cameron is in increasingly short supply.” – The Film Stage Dec 16, 2025 Full Review A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) 36% EDIT “As a sweeping, romantic fantasy, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is less grounded than the quiet modernist backdrops of Columbus or the pragmatic futurism of After Yang, but its blueprint is not wholly dissimilar.” – The Film Stage Sep 16, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% EDIT “The Final Reckoning‘s sum is not necessarily equal to its parts, but where the film stumbles technically, it soars viscerally.” – The Film Stage May 14, 2025 Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% C+ EDIT “Fede Alvarez’s wicked concoctions are worthy deviations from a directive that is otherwise––to put it in Weyland-Yutani terms––“what’s best for The Company.”” – The Film Stage Aug 14, 2024 Full Review A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) 86% B- EDIT “He escapes the confines of being just a hired gun, but in the case of A Quiet Place: Day One, Sarnoski’s tender, apocalyptic character drama keeps getting interrupted by a bunch of pesky aliens.” – The Film Stage Jun 27, 2024 Full Review Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) 65% C+ EDIT “Even if it bears the baggage of a meta redemption arc for its star, Ride or Die brings enough stylistic gusto to its action in the absence of Michael Bay but has a hard time justifying most other decisions.” – The Film Stage Jun 7, 2024 Full Review Argylle (2024) 33% D EDIT “If one is to believe that cinema can spark change or have some measure of social responsibility, then the massive resources toward something so vacant feels morally reprehensible.” – The Film Stage Feb 2, 2024 Full Review The Beekeeper (2024) 71% C+ EDIT “Any eye-rolling quips or comic-book acidity is generally outweighed by this fundamental understanding: the best special effect your action film can deploy is Jason Statham kicking people.” – The Film Stage Jan 10, 2024 Full Review Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 96% B+ EDIT “As humanity at the heart of cinema, and perhaps art as a whole, seems to fall further into jeopardy, there’s a great irony that a keen reflection on this current climate should come from the seventh entry in a blockbuster franchise. ” – The Film Stage Jul 6, 2023 Full Review Fast X (2023) 56% C+ EDIT “Fast newcomer Louis Letterier, ever a big-dumb-movie workman, siphons enough goofy energy from some of his previous blockbusters to inject some verve back into this lumbering series.” – The Film Stage May 19, 2023 Full Review Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) 82% C- EDIT “All of this is funneled through a space oddity pastiche that feels pre-approved and safely on brand; not the genuine, fascinating weirdness of an industry outsider. ” – The Film Stage May 4, 2023 Full Review John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) 94% B+ EDIT “Not only does Chapter 4 endeavor to be a potentially final John Wick movie, it plays as an attempt at the last action movie ever made.” – The Film Stage Mar 22, 2023 Full Review Creed III (2023) 89% B EDIT “Star and first-time director Michael B. Jordan uses newfound free space to his advantage. Haymakers and uppercuts aren’t the only bold swings taken here. If Creed is the best of the Rocky films, Creed III works because it’s barely a Rocky film.” – The Film Stage Mar 3, 2023 Full Review Prey (2022) 94% B EDIT “If the ‘87 Predator works because it’s foremost a high-spirited, well-oiled killing machine, Prey does more to honor that legacy than any previous follow-up.” – The Film Stage Aug 3, 2022 Full Review Nope (2022) 83% B EDIT “Nope’s disparate eccentricities are enough of a foundation, however stitched-together, for Peele to exercise the cosmic cinematic ambitions at which he clearly excels.” – The Film Stage Jul 20, 2022 Full Review Jurassic World Dominion (2022) 29% D EDIT “Too consumed by trying to make a good spy movie (which it isn’t), Dominion almost forgets to be a good Jurassic Park movie. ” – The Film Stage Jun 8, 2022 Full Review Top Gun: Maverick (2022) 96% A- EDIT “One of the greatest, oft-overlooked skills [Tom Cruise] has developed over his decade-spanning career is how to internalize the weight of time, a factor crucial to Top Gun: Maverick’s ethos.” – The Film Stage May 12, 2022 Full Review Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) 73% C+ EDIT “The morbid joy Sam Raimi manages to induce here is undeniable. The madness, perhaps, is that he must manifest his violent delights through a content delivery system for babies.” – The Film Stage May 4, 2022 Full Review All the Old Knives (2022) 63% B EDIT “All the Old Knives wants you to sweat and swoon in equal measure.” – The Film Stage Apr 7, 2022 Full Review The Lost City (2022) 78% B EDIT “Theres no brand to gravitate to or dopamine reward for recognizing things you grew up withjust charisma, comedy, and star power in spades.” – The Film Stage Mar 24, 2022 Full Review Nightmare Alley (2021) 80% B- EDIT “A pleasant and uncertain walk through off-kilter kitsch--delivering a temporary thrill for the price of admission that may or may not wear off the minute you re-enter the real world.” – The Film Stage Dec 17, 2021 Full Review Eternals (2021) 47% C- EDIT “The whole enterprise remains a supermassive black hole not even a light like Chloé Zhao can escape.” – The Film Stage Nov 3, 2021 Full Review No Time to Die (2021) 83% B- EDIT “Fukunaga seems indebted to the sixth Bond outing On Her Majesty's Secret Service in a way that has fascinating implications for the series and its future.” – The Film Stage Oct 4, 2021 Full Review Free Guy (2021) 80% C+ EDIT “For a solid Hollywood workman like Shawn Levy, this is all right in the wheelhouse as he manages to render something breezy enough to overpower the cringe.” – The Film Stage Aug 12, 2021 Full Review The Marksman (2021) 37% C- EDIT “Neeson's ability to carry a grumbling, sad weight on his shoulders isn't entirely lost here, but the actor's output in the last decade or so has always fared better when it's paired with a wink and a nod, a la any of his Collet-Serra outings.” – The Film Stage Jan 14, 2021 Full Review
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