Splat 1.5/4 |
O Jerusalem (2007) |
"Unfortunately, French director Elie Chouraqui settles for speed and cliché." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
O'Horten (2009) |
"A veteran actor of half-a-century's standing (and several Lars von Trier projects), his wry, detached decency is a large part of the film's charm as he greets his new life's surprises with calm, slightly puzzled good humor." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Oasis (2004) |
"The lead performers have collected prizes at international festivals, and deservedly so. They play their roles with such courage and compassion that one sees the souls of the characters rather than their afflictions." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Observe and Report (2009) |
"In the end, Observe and Report falls in the somewhat confusing middle -- guaranteed to annoy the mainstream while not quite delivering the final twist and bitter irony the true comic cultists crave." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ocean's Thirteen (2007) |
"Something seems to be off when the actors onscreen are having a better time than the audience. Just like the first Ocean's film, this isn't so much a movie as a private party." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Off the Black (2006) |
"Off the Black should at least make us remember that Nolte has quietly aged into one of our strongest actors, and one of the few dedicated to taking on big roles no matter how small the picture, or the payday." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Off the Map (2005) |
"If it's not the best example of a film's adaptation of a play -- well, it's a fine example of what independent, idiosyncratic filmmaking is all about." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Offside (2006) |
"Obviously there's more than soccer at stake here, with the field standing for the world of ideas itself. How do we dare keep any group from entering? How will we ever succeed at keeping them out? We don't, says this film, and we can't." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1/4 |
The Oh in Ohio (2006) |
"Sometimes a flop is simply a case of a movie taking a wrong step. In the case of The OH in Ohio, it's a case of never taking a right one." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Oliver Twist (2005) |
"Polanski's adult fans deserve something more than a film for the kiddies, and Dickens deserves better treatment than merely 'tasteful.'" |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
The Omen (2006) |
"While it's not exactly a horror, it's still a long way from a great horror film." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
On A Clear Day (2006) |
"For all its exertions, the film spends most of its time merely treading water." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
On the Outs (2005) |
"Too unstructured for its own good." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Once (2007) |
"Elegantly capturing the alchemy of songwriting -- not to mention the alchemy of fleeting romance -- it's a one-of-a-kind movie to enthrall musicians and listeners alike." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato 3/4 |
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006) |
"The documentary offers enough color and depth to hold your interest and leave you keen to see the World Cup finals." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato |
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) |
"Rodriguez's movie aspires to trashy grandeur, and achieves it." |
Bob Campbell |
Tomato |
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2003) |
"Should Blighty stake its screen future on action-adventure? Family fun? Sex satire? Modernized music hall? Post-modern movie-movie? Meadows' answer is 'All of the above.'" |
Bob Campbell |
Splat 2/4 |
One Last Ride (2003) |
"It'd be unkind not to give Cupo credit for taking a gamble, and ending up with a halfway decent film. But taking a gamble isn't the same thing as pulling it off." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
One Night With The King (2006) |
"Unfortunately [O'Toole and Sharif are] separated by five centuries, and never share a scene. For a movie with the most righteous of intentions, that's perhaps the most grievous moviemaking sins of all." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2005) |
" Imaginatively plotted destruction abounds." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Only Human (2006) |
"If you don't have a family of believable Jewish characters to begin with, the whole thing falls apart." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Only the Strong Survive (2003) |
"Unfortunately, it's not a great movie -- and given the filmmakers involved, that's a criminal disappointment." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Onmyoji (2001) |
"The tone is loose and jokey enough to stave off heaviness." |
Bob Campbell |
Tomato |
Open Water (2004) |
"It should make you think hard about assuming only a big, effects-driven adventure can really give you your money's worth." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Or (My Treasure) (2005) |
"Or (My Treasure), a new Israeli movie, is a film about prostitution, but its models aren't other movies. Instead, the details of its heroine's work have the ugliness of real life." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Orphan (2009) |
"What could be an interesting horror film just turns ... horrible." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Osama (2003) |
"It's an important film, made under impossibly arduous circumstances. Yet it's far easier to respect than to embrace." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Other Man (2009) |
"Before long, the characters, which director Richard Eyre adapted from a Bernhard Schlink short story, cease to be people and start to become devices." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
The Other Side of the Street (2005) |
"And at its best, it not only shows us life on the other side of the courtyard. It shows us filmmaking on the other side of the hemisphere." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Out of Time (2003) |
"Out of Time is probably Hollywood's most seamless suspense trap since The Fugitive." |
Bob Campbell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Outrage (2009) |
"It would be nice if the film had less of [McGreevey] and even more on some of its lying politicians. And was willing to entertain, at least for a moment, the idea that other motives might be at work than simple, internalized self-hatred." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Over Her Dead Body (2008) |
"Over Her Dead Body itself is a movie haunted by the annoying, humorless performance of Eva Longoria Parker." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Over the Hedge (2006) |
"The writing doesn't measure up to the casting, and the picture is miles from original." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato |
Overnight (2004) |
"A morbidly compelling cautionary tale about the negative side of instant sensation." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato |
Owning Mahowny (2003) |
"Has many nice touches." |
Stephen Whitty |
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