Tomato 2.5/4 |
O (2001) |
"Offers a thoughtful reading on adolescence pushed to the edge." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
"Devilishly delightful." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
O'Horten (2009) |
"Not quite the absurdist gem that was Bent Hamer's 2004 release, Kitchen Stories, the Norwegian director's O'Horten is nonetheless a deadpan delight." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Observe and Report (2009) |
"As funny as it is sick (and it's plenty of both)." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Obsessed (2009) |
"One doesn't expect a movie of this type to be plausible, but this one stretches the plausibility factor past the snapping point to the unintentional-laughter point." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ocean's Eleven (2001) |
"Happily Soderbergh's updated Ocean's Eleven, reconceived by screenwriter Ted Griffin, has only three things in common with its source: a Vegas location, a casino-heist plot, and a crew of cool cuties." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ocean's Thirteen (2007) |
"Evocatively shot with the saturated color of '60s film and accompanied by David Holmes' retro-mod score, Ocean's Thirteen is a boy's-night-out lark that girls can enjoy." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ocean's Twelve (2004) |
"Offers a cheap (relatively speaking -- ticket prices aren't what they used to be), stress-free, vicarious vacation." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Off the Map (2005) |
"Has the feel of a coming-of-age novel." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Offside (2006) |
"Exhilarating, exuberant and drolly funny." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Oh in Ohio (2006) |
"This is the slightest and slimmest of sex comedies." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Old Dogs (2009) |
"Predictable as the premise is, Travolta's and Williams' unpredictability makes for some chortle-worthy slapstick, less of Laurel & Hardy vintage than of Abbott & Costello swill." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Old Joy (2006) |
"Old Joy's not-going- anywhere-ness is a big part of its charm." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Old School (2003) |
"Old School has all the ingredients of an uproarious campus comedy, but it lacks a boisterous short-order cook who could whip up a food fight or three." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Oliver Twist (2005) |
"Poignant and primal, Roman Polanski's splendid adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic pricks the heart and the conscience." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Omen (2006) |
"The Omen remake is creepily efficient." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 2/4 |
On the Line (2001) |
"Bass has a charming, quiet anxiety that draws you toward him." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Once (2007) |
"Told with the simplicity of a Chaplin film (more than once I was reminded of City Lights), Once has the tentative and unpredictable amble of a chance encounter rather than the absolute and overdetermined structure of a Hollywood film." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) |
"After a while, Once Upon a Time in Mexico starts having the same effect as one too many tequilas: the Hong Kong-style stunts, the goofy wisecracks, the foxy presence of Eva Mendes -- all of it becomes blurry and numbing." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 1/4 |
The One (2001) |
"A dim-witted, dim-watted martial-arts actioner." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
One Hour Photo (2002) |
"It has Williams -- memorably creepy, chillingly sad." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
One Missed Call (2003) |
"Miike, whose work usually veers into more surreal, experimental terrain, uses creepy-crawly juxtaposition, grisly violence, and dark humor to create a nightmare scenario for the text-message generation." |
Steven Rea |
Splat |
One Night at McCool's (2001) |
"There isn't much to McCool's that couldn't be found in an adult magazine." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Only Human (2006) |
"A Spanish comedy that isn't quite as frenzied or farcical as its husband-and-wife writer-director team clearly intended it to be." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Only the Strong Survive (2003) |
"An affair that for long stretches resembles a Time-Life infomercial hawking Memphis soul CDs." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Open Hearts (2003) |
"Bier knows what she's doing, and the performances are expert and affecting." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Open Range (2003) |
"An awesome compendium of cowboy-movie cliches. It borders on parody, and often crosses the border, rustling up a drove of oater aphorisms." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 4/4 |
Open Water (2004) |
"Open Water is so deeply terrifying, so primal in its depiction of man at the mercy of nature, that watching it shakes you to the core." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Orange County (2002) |
"A pleasantly screwy surprise." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato |
The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) |
"Boasts the highest laughs-per-minute ratio of any in this season's hilarity." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
Original Sin (2001) |
"Banderas' and Jolie's characters are not recognizably human. They are engineered to fit the mechanics of plot." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Orphan (2009) |
"One of the best entries in the cute-as-a-button-psycho-demon-child-from-hell subgenre." |
Tirdad Derakhshani |
Tomato 3 |
The Orphanage (2007) |
"The Orphanage is never less than engaging. Here and there it's even genuinely frightening." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Osama (2003) |
"Heartbreaking stuff." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Osmosis Jones (2001) |
"Has more ambition and imagination than can be comfortably contained in its brief 83 minutes." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) |
"Given the zing and zip of [screenwriter] Morgan's prior work, it's fair to guess that the film's want of rhythm and sweep is due to Justin Chadwick's pedestrian direction." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Other Side of Heaven (2002) |
"It is inspirational in characterizing how people from such diverse cultures share the same human and spiritual needs." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Other Side of the Street (2005) |
"The Other Side of the Street is full of the stillness, and silences, of a life that's been muted and shut down." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Others (2001) |
"The film is beautiful to behold but lacking in any kind of palpable dread or suspense." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato |
Our Song (2001) |
"That rare thing, an American movie that looks at teenagers' life with sensitivity and empathy and humanity." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Out of Time (2003) |
"The most purely entertaining thriller since No Way Out." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Outlander (2009) |
"An enjoyably goofy hybrid of extraterrestrial sci-fi and Iron Age action." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Outrage (2009) |
"Despite its title, Outrage is calm, riveting, and provocative, taking pride in officials who come out and and taking aim at those who remain closeted." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato |
Outside Providence (1999) |
"Outside Providence, despite its familiar formula, feels fresh!" |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Over Her Dead Body (2008) |
"A one-eyelash-above-average supernatural rom-com." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat |
Over the Hedge (2006) |
"Over the Hedge isn't by any stretch bad. It's just banal." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Owning Mahowny (2003) |
"Owning Mahowny is an unflashy but fascinating meditation on addiction and greed." |
Steven Rea |
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