Tomato 3/5 |
O'Horten (2009) |
"A quiet, oddly serene movie with a curious soul." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Observe and Report (2009) |
"While it stops before sliding too far into the darkness, Observe and Report hits a lot of bull's-eyes by aiming for the gut, not easy belly laugh." |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 1/5 |
Obsessed (2009) |
"More like Delayed Frustration than Fatal Attraction." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Occupation: Dreamland (2005) |
"Straightforward and immensely powerful, the movie offers a blunt assessment of the war from soldiers currently fighting it, and their perspective is not pretty." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ocean's Thirteen (2007) |
"Ocean's Thirteen is passingly enjoyable summer fluff, but if you can find a more genial, less edgy caper movie, you might want to own it as a pet." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ocean's Twelve (2004) |
"How many movies recapture the blithe spirit of Frank Sinatra and his Rat Pack, plus a sense of old-school star glamour?" |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Odessa Odessa (2005) |
"It's all very confusing." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/5 |
Off Jackson Avenue (2009) |
"A nicely done first feature from writer-director John-Luke Montias, Off Jackson Avenue has a rich sense of place and enough confidence in its story that it doesn't need to have its characters collide, Crash-style, until they have to." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 3/4 |
Off the Black (2006) |
"As good as Nolte is, the relatively unknown Morgan matches him scene for scene." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Off the Hook (2002) |
"Despite the inexperience of the director and his cast, there's rarely a false moment." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato |
Off the Map (2005) |
"Perhaps the most evocative movie of the new year." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Offside (2006) |
"Director Jafar Panahi has long been an eloquent and passionate representative for Iranian women. But judging by this deeply poignant comedy, they may not need a mouthpiece much longer." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Oh in Ohio (2006) |
"People who complain about the lack of good adult comedies will still be complaining after watching Billy's Kent's The Oh in Ohio." |
Jack Mathews |
1/5 |
Old Dogs (2009) |
"Travolta, who delivers an impressively enthusiastic performance, seems to have no idea that he's stuck in one of the year's worst movies. The perpetually pained expression on Williams' face, however, suggests he knows otherwise." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Old Joy (2006) |
"Kelly Reichardt's minimalist buddy film about two former roommates on an overnight camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains features some of the year's most beautiful scenery and two of its most wooden characters." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/4 |
Oliver Twist (2005) |
"Polanski delivers an acceptable yet thoroughly uninspiring twist on the orphaned Oliver, who gets a raw deal every which way." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/4 |
The Omen (2006) |
"I say rent the original. It tells exactly the same story, with a better cast and with special effects that are as good or better." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
On A Clear Day (2006) |
"If it weren't for Scotsman Peter Mullan, who's wonderful as Frank Redmond, On a Clear Day would be intolerably pat." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
On the Outs (2005) |
"What makes the film feel genuine, however, are the performances." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
On the Run (2002) |
"The first and third add up to something very poignant and satisfying." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Once (2007) |
"Once isn't especially complex, but the chemistry between its appealing leads feels deeply true. You'd have to look awfully hard to find such sincerity in a Hollywood romance." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006) |
"Once in a Lifetime performs a belated autopsy on the Cosmos and the North American Soccer League and basically concludes that they died of impatience." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/4 |
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) |
"Paying homage to Sergio Leone, Mexico aims too high and, in the process, becomes more like every generic, overplotted drug-cartel- and-revenge flick out there." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2003) |
"As depicted without affection by director Shane Meadows, his screeching actors and his overzealous set designer, the area is a step below trailer-trash culture and the main activities are bingo, hurling insults and airing one's dirty laundry on TV." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2.5/4 |
One Bright Shining Moment (2005) |
"Parallels to the current day are plain to see, so Vittoria's insistence on juxtaposing images of contemporary politicians and an angry narration only undercut the power of his otherwise absorbing presentation." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
One Night With The King (2006) |
"In itself, it's a riveting story. Unfortunately, director Michael Sajbel has envisioned an overwrought Lifetime movie of the week, complete with an Esther who could be a cast member of Laguna Beach and a king notable only for his washboard abs." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
One Third (2006) |
"Nearly devoid of both dialogue and narrative cohesion." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1.5/4 |
One to Another (2007) |
"The confusing time line of Pascal Arnold and Jean-Marc Barr's bizarre tale of sibling romance, murder and obsession is just one of its problems. The others are the romance, the murder and the obsession." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/5 |
Ong Bak 2 (2009) |
"Jaa, who co-directs, has only one thing in mind: a series of increasingly complex fight scenes in his characteristically wide-ranging style. If movie theaters allowed you to fast-forward past the filler, your life just might be complete." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2005) |
"It's not often that you witness the creation of a star, so grab the chance now." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Only Human (2006) |
"While disaster ensues, the directors have the sense to avoid the obvious, finding trouble in the least predictable of places." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Opa! (2009) |
"As standard uptight-American-unbuttons-himself-abroad movies go, director Udayan Prasad's gentle, unexceptional romance is exactly what you'd expect." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Opal Dream (2006) |
"The finale will lift you up." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1/4 |
Open My Heart (2003) |
"Do they have Cinemax in Italy? Because surely that's where this filmy, flimsy fantasy belongs." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Open Range (2003) |
"A flawed but highly entertaining B Western blown up to John Ford scale." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Open Season (2006) |
"A story that balances gentle messages with enough goofy anarchy to please any kid." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Open Water (2004) |
"Kentis keeps it simple and direct, and the effect is devastating." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 3/4 |
Operation Filmmaker (2008) |
"You can bet Nina Davenport didn't set out to make a documentary as bracingly honest as the one she ended up with." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Or (My Treasure) (2005) |
"Even as Or joins an escort service and begins to follow in her mother's footsteps, Yedaya holds out hope that the girl will stop trying to rescue Mom and save herself." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1/4 |
The Order (2003) |
"A supernaturally silly drama about priests, exorcism, sin-eaters and Heath Ledger struggling with such pious problems as how to keep his fake Euro accent in place." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/5 |
Orphan (2009) |
"The scares are often the generic, push-off-the-slide variety and Orphan doesn't add much to the genre except, disturbingly, a fetishistic bent that's creepy in the wrong way." |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 2/4 |
The Orphanage (2007) |
"The last act is laced with surprises, but, unfortunately, none that you might call pleasant." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Orthodox Stance (2008) |
"Salita doesn't see many other conflicts in his twin passions -- which, ultimately, makes for a less-than-gripping story. He's a likable guy and we're happy to watch his successes, but the movie lacks the emotional punch needed to knock us out." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Orwell Rolls In His Grave (2004) |
"Every incident mentioned in the film was reported in the media, sometimes ad nauseam, and the polls show that about half of Americans like where things are going." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Oswald's Ghost (2007) |
"[A] meticulously researched, seemingly unbiased summary of the [JFK] killing and the major conspiracy theories." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/4 |
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) |
"As the girls' mother, Kristin Scott Thomas is basically reduced to shaking her head, sighing and wondering how things turned out so badly. Indeed." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/5 |
The Other Man (2009) |
"A supposedly grown-up drama like The Other Man ought to have scruples about where it plans to take you. Trickiness for its own sake is simply a cheat." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato |
The Other Side of the Street (2005) |
"Montenegro does wonders in her long silences, and makes her love scene with the eager 72-year-old Cortez look like a hookup at Club Med." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/4 |
Our Brand Is Crisis (2005) |
"Gani is certainly no hero and his American strategists come off as the worst sort of interlopers." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Out of the Blue (2007) |
"Robert Sarkies' dramatization of that event is as sensitive to its subject as it is stark in its rendering." |
Jack Mathews |
IGN RSS Feeds
