| O |
William Shakespeare's plays have been adapted in so many ways on stage and screen that Tim Blake Nelson's O, which finds Othello reimagined in the world of an exclusive Southern prep ...
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| O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
Leave it up to the Coen Brothers to use Homer's The Odyssey as inspiration for aneclectic, slapstick, Depression-era musical comedy set in Mississippi and featuring jokesabout cows getting run ...
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| Observe and Report |
Seth Rogen, sinking deep into a pit of misguided mania, plays the film’s resident Travis Bickle, a suburban mall cop named Ronnie Barnhardt who takes it quite personally when he’s not properly ...
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| Obsessed |
The happy family at the center of the storm is headed by Derek (Idris Elba), a successful investment manager who, in the film’s opening sequence, has just purchased a massive, beautiful Los ...
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| Ocean's Eleven |
Steven Soderbergh's retro-funk update of the original Rat Pack movie Ocean's Eleven is a vivacious, quirky, throwaway crime-comedy about the seemingly impossible heist of $160 million from ...
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| Ocean's Thirteen |
The script, which was concocted by screenwriting partners Brian Koppelman and David Levien (who are now hereby absolved for writing the lame 2004 remake of Walking Tall), gets back to ...
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| Ocean's Twelve |
Once again helming is Steven Soderbergh, who deploys many of his favorite retro filmmaking techniques (wipes, zooms, freeze frames, etc.) to give the film some visual dash. The fact that most of it ...
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| Oceans |
Co-directed by Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, who also gave us Winged Migration (2001), Oceans is not heavy on factual information; in fact, it could have easily played without ...
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| October Sky |
The movie opens in October 1957 when, like the rest of America, Homer takes notice that the Soviets successfully launch the Sputnik satellite. However, unlike the rest of his small town, he uses it ...
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| Office Space |
This film, the first live-action offering from Mike Judge, creator of "Beavis and Butt-head" and "King of the Hill," is a wry tale of vengeance against cubicle culture, and anyone who has ever worked ...
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| Old School [Blu-Ray] |
The brains behind the concept is Vaughn’s Beanie, a not-so-happily married father of two who owns a successful electronics store that he built from the ground up with only a bare minimum of ...
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| Oldboy [DVD] |
Oldboy is filled with the kind of passion that gets splattered on walls. Awarded the Jury Grand Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival (not incidentally, by a jury headed by Quentin ...
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| Oleanna |
The film, which is based almost word-for-word on Mamet's 1992 play, transpires in three acts, all of which take place in John's office at an unnamed Ivy League school. When the film opens, Carol has ...
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| Once |
The story takes place in Dublin, where the guy, who works in his father's (Bill Hodnett) vacuum repair shop, nurses a long-gestating musical career dream by writing his own songs and singing them ...
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| Once Upon a Time in Mexico |
After spending the last three years crafting the family-friendly Spy Kids trilogy, writer/director Robert Rodriguez has returned to the vengeful protagonist who first appeared in the movie ...
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| Once Upon a Time in the West (C'era una volta il West) [DVD] |
Director Sergio Leone did two things better than just about any other director before or since: shooting close-ups and choreographing memorable entrances for his characters. Those two skills, which ...
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| One False Move |
In the opening segment, three criminals, Roy (Billy Bob Thornton), Pluto (Michael Beach), and Roy's girlfriend Fantasia (Cynda Williams) disrupt a birthday party by stabbing, shooting or suffocating ...
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| One Hour Photo |
The little boy gets it exactly right when he tells his mother he senses that Sy the Photo Guy is sad. The mother hasn't ever thought of it in this way. To her, Sy is just an extremely friendly, ...
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| One Night at McCool's |
In One Night at McCool's, Liv Tyler plays Jewel, a curvaceous bombshell scamartist who wraps a trio of idiotic men around her finger, proving what seems to be themovie's only point: Men think ...
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| One True Thing |
But, surprisingly, it's not like that at all. The subject matter of "One True Thing" is not particularly deep, and the characters aren't particularly original, but a handful of fine performances by ...
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| Ong-Bak |
Of course, movies are visual flights of fantasy with an inordinate number of tricks to make you think you've seen things you haven't, but Ong-Bak is, pound for pound, as real as it gets. As ...
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| Onibaba [DVD] |
Shindo made the brilliant decision to set the film amid the towering reeds of a suski grass field, which has an intense focusing effect on the narrative. It is set in a time of war, and there are ...
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| Open Range |
Kevin Costner’s Open Range has one of the best Western shootouts ever committed to celluloid. It takes up nearly 20 minutes of the film, and in it Costner depicts with frightening clarity ...
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| Open Water |
Granted, there are moments that make you jump in your seat, but the primary emotion the film elicits is one of despondency, a kind of sinking sense of primal fear that starts in your heart and ...
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| Opera [DVD] |
Dario Argento, one of the most influential and creative horror directors of the last 25 years, often complained that viewers would shut their eyes during the goriest parts of his films. As most of ...
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| Orange County |
Orange County is an amusing, sometimes witty, but often uneven comedy about the horrors of familial dysfunction. It is also an example of the benefits of Hollywood nepotism, with the talented ...
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| Ordet [DVD] |
> When Day of Wrath (Vredens dag) was released in 1943, its ...
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| Ordinary People [DVD] |
Robert Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People, is a solemn, studied portrait of a well-to-do American family coming apart from the inside after the tragic death of a son. Based the ...
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| Orphan |
The orphan of the title is a dark-haired little girl named Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), who is adopted from a Catholic orphanage by Kate (Vera Farmiga, who also played the mother in Joshua) and ...
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| Osmosis Jones |
Considering the obsessive attention they have paid to all the gooiest and grossest aspects of the human body in their others movies, it isn't surprising that Peter and Bobby Farrelly have finally ...
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| Our Town [DVD] |
Playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder believed that life was only worth living if you
treasured each moment in time. In the late 1930s, he won the Pulitzer Prize for one his first
long plays, ...
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| Out of Sight |
However, as strange and outmoded as the poster seems, it perfectly conveys the retro attitude of "Out of Sight," which ironically enough, is adapted from Leonard's most recent novel, published in ...
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| Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism |
Director Robert Greenwald, a veteran television producer and director who also made the documentary-polemic Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War (2003), takes a direct approach to ...
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| Outside Providence |
My hunch is that a lot of people are going to see "Outside Providence" under the misconception that, because Peter and Bobby Farrelly were involved with the screenplay, the movie will be filled ...
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| Over the Hedge |
The idea behind the story is that, while the woodland creatures were hibernating for the winter, an enormous, 50-acre suburban development was built and a tall hedge erected to separate the ...
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| Overlord [DVD] |
However, the real achievement of Overlord is not so much the ability of Cooper and his editor, Jonathan Gili, to match the archival footage with the new footage by cinematographer John ...
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