Tomato 3/4 |
O (2001) |
"Shakespeare's Othello meets Columbine in this messy little teen drama." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
O Amor Natural (1996) |
"O Amor Natural remains hopeful about the unifying potential of Carlos Drummond de Andrade's poetry of desire." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
O Amor Natural (1996) |
"Come see Brazil's poet laureate get his freak on." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 1.5/4 |
O Jerusalem (2007) |
"Hammers away at its Arab/Jewish variation on the chicken-or-the-egg debate ad nauseam." |
Rob Humanick |
Splat 2/4 |
O'Horten (2009) |
"Oh, O'Horten, how wincingly affected you are." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Objectified (2009) |
"moothly compelling with its sleek, mass-produced shapes and beautiful minds that fetishize ergonomics and the ideal of perfectability." |
Bill Weber |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Oblivion (1994) |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Oblivion (2008) |
"Asserts that, under a tragicomic two centuries of home misrule, the most devalued citizens of Lima have failed to be consigned to the limbo ("el olvido") the oligarchy has constructed for them." |
Bill Weber |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Obscene: A Portrait Of Barney Rosset And Grove Press (2008) |
"Obscene is a brief, pleasant time-killer that genially preaches to the choir yet, while it's always enjoyable, this review's readers should seek Grove books out first." |
Aaron Cutler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Observe and Report (2009) |
"Jody Hill takes Ben Stiller's comedy-of-awkwardness to painfully uncomfortable, extreme realms, offering up unrepentantly disagreeable characters who confront their deep insecurities through psychotic displays of machismo." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Obsessed (2009) |
"Director Shill doesn't get fancy building tension from his nonsensical male-anxiety mayhem, allowing Knowles's beguiling fierceness and Larter's sexualized cunning to carry much of the prurient load." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Obsession (1976) |
"Another of De Palma's fearlessly experimental whims." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Ocean's Eleven (2001) |
"A DVD package as smooth as the film it preserves. Buy some wine, a nice suit and a ticket to Vegas." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ocean's Eleven (2001) |
"Soderbergh is so cool he can make anything go down like fine wine." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Ocean's Thirteen (2007) |
"To call the Ocean's films frivolous would be kind, implying that these arduous concoctions are somehow light on their proverbial feet." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 1/4 |
Ocean's Twelve (2004) |
"There’s so much mugging in this film that I kept checking my pockets to see if my wallet was missing." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato |
Odd People Out (2004) |
"A deeply moving, orgiastic examination of the contours of memory and a country held under the spell of an Orwellian form of mind control." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Of Time and the City (2009) |
"Of Time and the City never less than throbs with emotion, a reminder of what a loss Davies's absence from the screen has been." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Off Jackson Avenue (2009) |
"Sex slavery, Japanese hit men, and ordinary car thieves converge on the mean streets of Long Island City in Off Jackson Avenue, John-Luke Montias's engagingly lurid but ultimately tepid crime drama." |
Andrew Schenker |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Off the Black (2006) |
"Nick Nolte's grizzled, alcoholic recluse mentors Trevor Morgan's unhappy teen in Off the Black, a heartwarming tale that's been told a thousand times before, and with considerably more spark." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Off the Map (2005) |
"Off the Map evokes cave paintings coming to life." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Offshore (2009) |
"By painting the downsized as a bunch of racist grotesques, Cheklich does a disservice to those Americans threatened with the very real prospect of suffering layoffs." |
Andrew Schenker |
Tomato |
Offside (2006) |
"The only thing bad that can be said about the arrival of Offside to video is its lousy DVD cover art." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Offside (2006) |
"Tragedy spectacularly laced with hope." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Offside (2006) |
"The comically-tinged suspense and technical brilliance of certain moments never grow out of anything organic as in the great Panahi/Kiarostami collaboration Crimson Gold." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 0/4 |
The Oh in Ohio (2006) |
"The sound recording is hollow and muddy, the cinematography underlit and sometimes blurred at the edges, and the whole thing has the dreary feeling of a bottom-of-the-barrel, clammy '70s sex comedy." |
Dan Callahan |
Splat 1/4 |
Oh My God (2009) |
"In Oh My God, those who disagree with the party line are summarily contradicted." |
Andrew Schenker |
Splat .5/4 |
Old Dogs (2009) |
"So wretched that it should be unceremoniously put down." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Old Joy (2006) |
"Carefully accumulates and juxtaposes details to form an interconnected web of loneliness, regret, and longing for happier times gone by." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Old Partner (2009) |
"The film's unrelenting presentation of raw misery not only shortchanges the fullness of the subjects' experience, but with its hovering, pitch-perfect camera-eye, feels dangerously like an invasion." |
Andrew Schenker |
Splat 2/4 |
Oldboy (2005) |
"The suffocating Oldboy’s existentialist angst promises sophisticated returns only to spiral into callous Identity territory." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953) |
"Naruse shows his considerable skill at portraying household dynamics..." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Oliver and Company (1988) |
"I guess I can cut the Mouse House a little slack when it comes to paint-by-numbers mediocrities like Oliver & Company." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat |
Oliver and Company (1988) |
"Billy Joel sang it best: "Why should I care?"" |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Oliver Twist (2005) |
"Oliver Twist isn't the nasty affair Polanski fans might be hoping for." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Oliver Twist (2005) |
"The film is a noble failure, but I can't imagine anyone coming to it for the first time wanting to take their eyes off it given the visual splendor of this disc." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
The Omen (1976) |
"This bloated package proves that the number of the beast for some Collector's Editions is two discs." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Omen (1976) |
"A bald-faced lamprey hitching its razor-tipped maw on the chassis of The Exorcist, The Omen's Sunday school parable of gothic Cathsploitation comes twice as thick and thrice as pious." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 1/4 |
The Omen (2006) |
"This latest unnecessary remake of a minor horror flick lacks even the benefit of novelty." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 1.5/4 |
On A Clear Day (2006) |
"Carries on the tradition of curdled sentimentality wrought by idiosyncratic, inspirational, English-flavored comedies like The Full Monty and Waking Ned Devine." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
On Dangerous Ground (1951) |
"Perched between late-'40s noir and mid-'50s crime drama, this is one of the great, forgotten works of the genre." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato 3/4 |
On the Outs (2005) |
"Documentarians by trade, the directors use rough DV cinematography and no score to amplify their tale's sense of lived-in reality." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
On the Rumba River (2008) |
"On the Rumba River illuminates a culture's means of political response via communal expression through music." |
Rob Humanick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
On the Run (2002) |
"As a genre exercise, it’s a ringing success, but the film lacks subtext." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
On the Silver Globe (1987) |
"On the Silver Globe takes raging philosophical bites on the subject of ethical freedom." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat |
On the Silver Globe (1987) |
"This fascinating cult item would be an even richer collectible if the DVD included a sense of the project's lost battle against government censorship." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Once (2007) |
"Once is the David Gray or James Blunt of movie musicals, and amazingly enough, that's not a bad thing." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006) |
"The film is an uncanny reflection of soccer itself: intermittently engaging but generally a dramatically inert bore." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) |
"Features one of the most personable collections of supplemental materials amassed for a major DVD release in quite some time." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) |
"As an iconic image, [Depp] captures the feeling of Rodriguez’s movie: blinded and shooting randomly in all directions." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
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