Dan Callahan

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For 137 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 32% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 66% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 10.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Dan Callahan's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 55
Highest review score: 100 Marx Can Wait
Lowest review score: 0 Nina
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 39 out of 137
  2. Mixed: 86 out of 137
  3. Negative: 12 out of 137
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    • 73 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Callahan
    4 Days in France
    It’s as if Reybaud wants to put in every scene and character he has ever thought of in one film, and so his two main characters get lost.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Dan Callahan
    In This Corner of the World
    It succumbs to evasiveness and sentimentality at the end, but this does not extinguish the memory of the many funny, touching, and captivatingly odd scenes that have come before.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Callahan
    The Midwife
    The bothersome and irritating thing about the way The Midwife is written is that we keep hearing detail after detail and story after story about the shared history between Claire and Béatrice, but we never get a solid idea of what that history was.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 45 Dan Callahan
    F(l)ag Football
    Most of these guys want to be “guys” in the most conventional ways, but at its best, this is a movie about how deviations from that norm can still be taken in and accepted and even championed.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Callahan
    The Book of Henry
    The really sad thing is that this is a movie with some intriguing characters that has some real comic and dramatic potential, but all this gets lost in increasingly silly plot mechanics.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Dan Callahan
    The Pirates of Somalia
    Dabka winningly traces the ways that a callow American gets schooled in concepts like honor and sacrifice until he is considered an expert on a country and a people that he grows to love.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 50 Dan Callahan
    Chuck
    Chuck takes a small subject and turns it into a basic redemption story, and as such it has some merit. Not much, but just enough.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 45 Dan Callahan
    Aardvark
    Aardvark is the sort of movie that gets by with its unpredictable where-is-this-going vibe for about a half-hour or so.... But it becomes apparent at a certain point that the set-up is pretty much all there is to this movie.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 0 Dan Callahan
    Flower
    There are some movies that are misguided in a simple way, and then there are those rare unrelentingly awful movies like Flower that decide to go wrong in as many ways as possible in as short a time as possible.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Dan Callahan
    The Trip to Spain
    What Coogan and Brydon are doing in these films is an acquired taste, but if they want to continue on doing them then they’re going to need to cut down and edit their interminable actor impressions.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 85 Dan Callahan
    The Lovers
    This film is a real pleasure and surprise because it sees old emotions as things that can be replenished and renewed if you are open and not too rigid about the boundaries of your relationships with others.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Callahan
    The Circle
    The Circle takes a valid concern about lack of privacy in the Internet age and turns it into a hyperbolic and finally laughable melodrama.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Dan Callahan
    Manifesto
    The surprise here is that Rosefeldt has managed to deliver an intellectually-charged, cheeky, and very funny film that feels unruly and expansive in spite of its tight 12-day shooting schedule and its focus on just one performer.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 60 Dan Callahan
    A Quiet Passion
    The degree of difficulty here is steep, and Davies has not been entirely successful in making Dickinson’s milieu come to full and convincing life.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Callahan
    The Fate of the Furious
    There is only one inventive action sequence here.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 45 Dan Callahan
    Beauty and the Beast
    This new mainly live-action Disney version of the oft-told story directed by Bill Condon feels largely perfunctory. Where it flounders most is on the miscasting of several crucial roles.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Dan Callahan
    The Freedom to Marry
    The Freedom to Marry is a movie that discourages complex thinking or contradiction, but there are little hints here and there of something more frightening and unstable.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Dan Callahan
    Oklahoma City
    Oklahoma City is certainly well made and relatively searching, but it can only scratch the surface of its very disturbing and complex subject.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 45 Dan Callahan
    God's Own Country
    Instead of making us feel that these boys are meant to be together, God’s Own Country unintentionally suggests that Gheorghe should get himself to a city where his silky dark hair, bedroom eyes and developed aesthetic sense might be far better appreciated by others.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 60 Dan Callahan
    Trophy
    Saving endangered animals is not a matter of sentimentality and lifting one up above another. It involves facing hard facts and brokering some compromises, and Trophy makes us fully aware of this.
    • 23 Metascore
    • 20 Dan Callahan
    Collateral Beauty
    Collateral Beauty is certainly a case of outright sentimental damage, not beauty, but of course the word collateral also means money that can be bargained with, and hopefully that’s what the ill-fated cast of this picture received in some abundance.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Dan Callahan
    The Pass
    The Pass is finally nothing more than a modest stage adaptation and a vehicle for Tovey, but on that level it is focused and skillful.
    • 30 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Callahan
    Boo! A Madea Halloween
    The tone and plot of the film keeps swinging this way and that.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Dan Callahan
    The Lost City of Z
    The Lost City of Z feels like a clear artistic advance for Gray, who proves himself here as one of our finest and most distinctive living filmmakers.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Callahan
    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk winds up being a wearying experience, not because of its emotional content but because of its lack of cohesion and its ultimate collapse into gross and unearned sentimentality.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 60 Dan Callahan
    20th Century Women
    20th Century Women mainly overcomes its flaws through the sheer imaginative sensitivity of Mills’s writing.
    • 28 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Callahan
    When the Bough Breaks
    When the Bough Breaks is a very conservative film that ducks any issues that might be dramatically interesting in order to work up lame suspense sequences.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Callahan
    Una
    Una keeps drifting away into flashy and superfluous details.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Callahan
    Special Correspondents
    [Gervais] abandons all sharp edges and serves up a bland, toothless picture that isn’t particularly scathing and doesn’t have anything much to say, even though the basic premise might have allowed for some satirical jabs at journalism and politics.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 0 Dan Callahan
    Nina
    Nina, an infuriatingly amateurish picture about the great singer and pianist Nina Simone, is a new low for the musical biopic genre.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 80 Dan Callahan
    King Cobra
    Movies don’t get much juicier, funnier, creepier, sadder, or smarter than writer-director Justin Kelly‘s King Cobra.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Dan Callahan
    The Boss
    It isn’t comedy, and it isn’t drama, much less comedy-drama.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Dan Callahan
    The Witch
    This is the kind of serious horror movie that will live in your head for days afterward, like a bad dream that’s difficult to shake.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Dan Callahan
    Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
    This movie is so crushing mainly because it was made by obviously smart people who are trying to dumb themselves down, and there’s nothing more excruciating than that.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Dan Callahan
    Sisters
    Even the stray gross-out moments of Sisters register as humane and heartfelt; Fey and Pohler’s comedy comes from a place of warmth and intelligence, and so does the movie.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Dan Callahan
    In from the Side
    The awkwardly titled gay rugby romance In from the Side is so padded out at 134 minutes with both rugby games and sex scenes that the final effect is numbing, and writer-director Matt Carter doesn’t bother much with either plot or character to fill out his narrative.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Dan Callahan
    Three Identical Strangers
    Wardle spent five years making Three Identical Strangers after several other filmmakers had given up on this subject because they were always hitting a dead end, and so he deserves credit for journalistic doggedness and also for making a documentary that plays like a nerve-jangling thriller.
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