[exuvia]

I have been using ACDSee in the last 20 years. The Ultimate version is really good and fast. However, when it comes to download from a memory card and handle metadata and so on, I use Photo Mechanic which is even faster. Both are working well for culling.
I have to say, however, that the features you require are pretty much standard in the commercial browsers nowadays (and even in a few of the opensource ones), so shouldn't be a problem at all.