Tomato |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) |
"The surprise is how much fruitful digression such plotlessness makes possible. With no particular place to go, this hobo of a movie is free to roam the damnedest places." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
O'Horten (2009) |
"[Director] Hamer has a gift for observational comedy, previously demonstrated in the droll Kitchen Stories, and also for the exquisite framing of wintry images." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Observe and Report (2009) |
"[Director] Hill evidently intends his film to be satirical. But satire requires intelligence to succeed. Observe and Report has a moronic sense of humour, trading in racism, sexism, profanity and violence at every predictable turn." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/4 |
Obsessed (2009) |
"If the producers had done their work properly on Obsessed, I would not now be wishing I could reclaim the two hours I wasted on this tepid, sexless, thrill-free melodrama." |
Greg Quill |
Splat 2/4 |
Ocean's Thirteen (2007) |
"An exercise in stylish bravado that is as substantial as a catfight between supermodels." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Ocean's Twelve (2004) |
"In keeping with his general distaste for sequels -- this is his first, in fact -- Soderbergh has subverted all of the usual conventions, making the movie far more interesting than it has any right to be." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Of Time and the City (2009) |
"[A] mesmerizing, visceral and heartfelt, a lushly rendered assembly of colour and black-and-white archival footage that evokes not only a remembrance of things past, but perhaps as they never were." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Offside (2006) |
"Offside is shocking in its revelation of the legal oppression of women in Iran. This film is also hugely funny." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Old Dogs (2009) |
"Unfunny and uninspired, this dog deserves to be put down." |
Linda Barnard |
Tomato 3/4 |
Old Joy (2006) |
"The real resonance of Reichardt's at once lean and profound little movie is that, without saying anything directly, it can seem to say so much." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Oldboy (2005) |
"While one might argue that it loses credibility and impact as it reaches further along the ledge of outrageous, tummy churning plot developments, there's no denying the turbulence it creates." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Oliver Twist (2005) |
"Polanski and his Pianist scribe Ronald Harwood have chosen to tell it in as simple a manner as possible, as though they had been given a Masterpiece Theatre assignment to dispatch." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Omagh (2004) |
"... unnervingly evokes both the panic and the confusion of a world suddenly ripped inside out." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Omen (2006) |
"If the opening-date driven re-make of The Omen succeeds in tapping into any fears of the existence of evil in the world, these will be most acutely felt when you realize that Satan, the old showbiz devil, has picked your pocket once again." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
On A Clear Day (2006) |
"The recycled spectacle of yet another downsized U.K. working-class type being reduced to an act of feel-good against-all-odds crowd-pleasing redemption." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
On the Corner (2003) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
On the Trail of Igor Rizzi (2006) |
"[Director] Mitrani's first feature, On the Trail of Igor Rizzi has all the earmarks -- pink from cold though they may be -- of a confidently assured and dangerously promising new talent." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
On the Verge of a Fever (2004) |
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Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
On Their Knees (2001) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Once (2007) |
"This indie musical is a bijou of a film that joins unaffected performances and a compelling soundtrack in a low-budget, documentary-style film that lets us watch two people fall in love to the mesmerizing soundtrack of the songs they create." |
Linda Barnard |
Splat 2/5 |
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) |
"It's at once busy and lacklustre, intricately plotted yet indifferently paced, handsomely mounted but made from plastic." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2003) |
"A movie that just barely avoids sickening sentimentality with its sudden swerves into anarchic comedy." |
Susan Walker |
Splat |
The One (2001) |
"It's the kind of movie ... where the hero is cheered not for the grace of his moves but for the number of rounds of ammo he can spray and the punches he can land." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
One from the Heart (1982) |
"An ambitious misfire by a brilliant filmmaker." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
One Hour Photo (2002) |
"No one who sees this movie will ever again take it for granted that photo shop employees couldn't care less about their pictures." |
Peter Howell |
Splat .5/4 |
One Missed Call (2008) |
"The best part of the movie is the fact that, at a running time of an hour and a half, it's mercifully short." |
Philip Marchand |
Splat |
One Night at McCool's (2001) |
"Sloppy and inconsequential, like a keg party in a parentless home." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
One Week (2008) |
"Subsumed in Canada's vast landscape, Ben finds ephemeral distraction and occasional edification, but not much in the way of great epiphanies." |
Greg Quill |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2005) |
"The time to catch Tony Jaa is now." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Only (2009) |
"A Before Sunrise for the Jonas Brothers demographic, Only is a sweet, subtle and perceptive movie about a fleeting connection between two lonely adolescents." |
Jason Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Only Human (2006) |
"It lets frantic get so far ahead of funny, the latter gets lost in the dust." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
Open City (1945) |
"A classic of historic importance." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Open Range (2003) |
"A movie that seeks no higher calling than to entertain us the way Hollywood used to." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Open Season (2006) |
"Now that we've made one of the best computer-generated talking-animal-on-an-odyssey movies in the brief but busy history of the genre, can we please, please move on?" |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/5 |
Open Water (2004) |
"There are no Hollywood heroes in these waters, only two regular people ... plus you and me, huddling in the dark." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
Orange County (2002) |
"Full of keenly observed moments of intergenerational embarrassment, as a smarter-than-average teen movie Orange County falls somewhere smack in between Ghost World's depressive cynicism and Teen Movie's gleeful cliche-bashing." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Orfeu (2000) |
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Splat |
Original Sin (2001) |
"Cristofer sabotages his movie by killing most of the suspense and robbing it of logic." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Orphan (2009) |
"The best thing about Orphan, is the way it plays with the genre's overused staples and its sophisticated audience's expectations." |
Greg Quill |
Tomato 4/5 |
Orphan of Anyang (2002) |
"Intimate and panoramic." |
Geoff Pevere |
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The Orphanage (2007) |
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Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Osama (2003) |
"Without piling on unnecessary pathos, and with a devotion to simply telling the truth of a situation, Osama works a rough kind of magic." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
Osmosis Jones (2001) |
"The animated sequences in Osmosis Jones are funny and clever and thoroughly entertaining, with plenty of lively imagination on display in the transposition of a 1970s cop movie to the inner workings of the human body." |
Norman Wilner |
Splat 2/4 |
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) |
"[A] vulgarized portrayal of the Tudor court." |
Philip Marchand |
Splat 2/4 |
The Other End of the Line (2008) |
"A feather-light romantic comedy that's laborious when it ought to be effervescent; The Other End of the Line is the latest exchange in an awkward conversation between two film industries." |
Jason Anderson |
Splat 1/5 |
The Other Side of the Bed (2003) |
"A movie in which insufferable yuppies boogie away inside the bubble of their own emotional immaturity. Truly, this is the unhinged joy of the deeply oblivious." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
The Others (2001) |
"Mr. Serling would be pleased." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Out of Time (2003) |
"Franklin is known for being good with actors, but Out Of Time also reveals his flair with machines, which too often dominate the plots of latter-day noirs." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Outsourced (2007) |
"In the hands of a lesser director, the secondary characters, including Todd's matronly Indian landlady, might have been mere caricatures. Smart production design and camerawork enhance the sense of authenticity." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 1/4 |
Over Her Dead Body (2008) |
"Writer/director Jeff Lowell settles for a story that takes a little too long to tell, concocted situations a little too implausible to buy and repartee that occasionally hits the dartboard but never gets close to the bull's-eye." |
Bruce Demara |
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