OBSERVE AND REPORT Release: Apr 09 - Review: 17 Oct 09
Report: C+. ...walks that indecisive line between drama and comedy, with Seth Rogen pulling it towards big-dumb-galoot comedy and the script (much like Hill's FOOT FIST WAY) tripping into self-realization drama. TOP
OBSESSED Release: Apr 09 - Review: 19 Aug 10
Hell hath no apathy, like a woman scorned. ...writer David Loughery and director Steve Shill have crafted OBSESSED as if they've never known the embrace of a woman, let alone been stalked by one. TOP
OCEAN'S
ELEVEN
Release: Dec 01 - Review: 30 Dec 03
Whatchoo talkin bout, Cheadle? ...we're not so much dealing with "movies"
as we are with "movie STARS". TOP
OCEAN'S
TWELVE
Release: Dec 04 - Review: 22 Nov 05
"1 Louder" Than Ocean's Eleven. ...so self-aware of its megastar cheese-wattage
that it can't quite get over its own smugness. TOP
OCEAN'S THIRTEEN Release: Jun 07 - Review: 23 Jun 07
Lucky Number Thirteen. ... this time ‘round, the direction is wiser, the plot is tighter and some of the jokes are actually funny. TOP
OPEN WATER Release: Aug 04 - Review: 6 Apr 09
Body of Beauty in Body of Water. Two insignificant bodies in a limitless ocean - fact that one of them is Blanchard Ryan's 9.5 body is doubly tragic... TOP
OPEN WATER 2: ADRIFT Release: Aug 06 - Review: 18 Dec 09
Sea legs in the second act. Like its tenuous predecessor, ADRIFT is also supposedly based on a true story - of six people lost at sea. Six BORING people. TOP
ORPHAN Release: Jul 09 - Review: 19 Aug 10 The Kid Ain't Kidding. ...when an upscale couple with two children adopt a 9-year-old orphan with scary theme music, familial bliss is not in the flow chart. TOP
OVER
THE HEDGE
Release: May
06 - Review: 27 May 06
Die Hard With A Woodland Critter Vengeance. ... does our enjoyment
stem from the tale and its telling, or from the megastar
backbone that props up all these modern 3D animation films? TOP
THE OX-BOW INCIDENT Release: May 43 - Review: 24 Dec 09
Vengeance is Swine. ...presciently an exact representation - EXACT - of how the George W. Bush administration prosecuted its failed state "justice" in its bogus War on Terror. TOP