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O (SAM)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (SAM)
Object of My Affection, The
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Oblivion
Large-scale landscapes and shiny gadgets make for arresting visuals in the science fiction epic "Oblivion" (Universal). But director Joseph Kosinski's emotionally shallow adaptation of his own graphic novel is further undermined by logical lapses and some dubious philosophizing.
While mature moviegoers may shrug off the amateur metaphysics of Karl Gajdusek's script ...
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Oblivion (CNS)
Observe and Report
A self-important mall security officer and would-be policeman (Seth Rogen) runs afoul of a real cop (Ray Liotta) in his blundering pursuit of an exhibitionist and a thief while romancing a cosmetics shop girl (Anna Faris). In writer-director Jody Hill's brooding dark comedy a few oddly poignant moments are overwhelmed by ...
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Observe and Report (CNS)
Obsessed
Competent but forgettable suspense yarn in which a temporary office worker (Ali Larter) becomes fixated on a happily married executive (Idris Elba) eventually causing his wife (Beyonce Knowles) to suspect an affair. Director Steve Shill's feature debut, essentially a rickety star vehicle for Knowles, showcases marital fidelity, but dallies with vigilantism ...
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Obsessed (CNS)
Oceans
The second movie released under Walt Disney Studios' new nature label is even more ambitious and wide-ranging than last year's "Earth." Arriving in theaters on Earth Day 2010, "Oceans" (Disneynature) offers as many visual delights as its predecessor while making a surprisingly sophisticated, indeed metaphysical, argument for responsible environmental stewardship.
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Oceans (CNS)
Ocean's Eleven
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Ocean's Eleven (SAM)
Ocean's Thirteen
After a convoluted European sojourn in "Ocean's Twelve," the third film in the stylish caper franchise returns to its entertaining if morally questionable Las Vegas roots as Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and company -- motivated by loyalty to their cohort Reuben (Elliott Gould) -- target an egotistical hotel mogul (Al Pacino). ...
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Ocean's Thirteen (CNS)
Ocean's Twelve
So-so caper film, in the vein of its predecessor, "Ocean's Eleven," with much the same star-studded cast as before (George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon), joined here by Catherine Zeta-Jones and a couple of unbilled surprise cameos, this time with picturesque European locales. The larcenous crew, which has tried ...
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Ocean's Twelve (CNS)
October Baby
“October Baby” tells the fictional story of Hannah (newcomer Rachel Hendrix), a 19-year old
college student who collapses during the performance of a play. In an effort to
find out why she is having medical issues and nightmares her parents tell her
she is adopted. This overwhelming news sends her and her best friend, ...
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October Baby (SRR)
October Sky
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October Sky (SAM)
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
The first thing to understand about "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" (Disney) is that, despite its genuinely wholesome approach, its themes of infertility and death make it unsuitable for younger children.
The film strains not to offend. But even older children may find parts of this fable—in which the enchanted ...
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The Odd Life of Timothy Green (CNS)
Of Gods and Men
A brilliant dramatization of real events, "Of Gods and Men" (Sony Pictures Classics) is a restrained religious masterpiece and a memorable viewing experience from which every adult—as well as many mature teens—can expect to profit.
The film recounts the fate of a small community of French Trappists living in Algeria ...
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Of Gods and Men (CNS)
Of Gods and Men
Not long after midnight on March 27, 1996, seven Trappist monks were
kidnapped from the monastery of Our Lady of Atlas in Tibhirine, Algeria.
After two months in captivity, they were beheaded; their bodies were
never found.
The monastery was begun in 1934 and located 272 miles south east of ...
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Of Gods and Men (SRR)
Of God's and Men
In 1996, seven French Trappist monks were kidnapped from their monastery in Tibhirine, Algeria, and beheaded. The monastery was located 272 miles southeast of the capital of Algiers. For some time a civil war ...
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Of God's and Men (SAM)
Off the Map
Leisurely paced but ultimately affecting story (based on a play by Joan Ackermann) of the unconventional Groden family living in virtual isolation in New Mexico -- a husband (Sam Elliott) suffering from such depression he barely speaks; a mother (Joan Allen) who sometimes gardens in the nude; a precocious 11-year-old daughter ...
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Off the Map (CNS)
Old Dogs
Though its back story is morally murky, the current proceedings in director Walt Becker's passable comedy "Old Dogs" (Disney) are mostly harmless. Still, a talented cast can do little with the thin, derivative script for this dizzy dad escapade penned by David Diamond and David Weissman.
As we learn in ...
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Old Dogs (CNS)
Old School
Obnoxious comedy about three thirtysomething former college classmates (Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn) who turn a rented off-campus house into a frat house to attract members and female guests for nonstop, all-around debauchery. Writer-director Todd Phillips and co-writer Scot Armstrong have tried to retool "Animal House" for men approaching middle ...
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Old School (CNS)
Oliver Twist
Fine and handsome new version of Charles Dickens' oft-filmed classic about an orphan boy who gets involved with a gang of thieves headed by the elderly Jewish ringleader Fagin (Ben Kingsley), and the efforts of a kindly gentleman to rescue him from their clutches. Director Roman Polanski and screenwriter Ronald Harwood ...
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Oliver Twist (CNS)
Omen, The
Effective remake of the 1976 supernatural thriller about an American diplomat (Liev Schreiber) and his wife (Julia Stiles) whose adopted son (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) turns out to be the Antichrist. Slickly crafted and well acted with a fair amount of suspense, director John Moore's virtual scene-by-scene update is a hodgepodge of Christian ...
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Omen, The (CNS)
On a Clear Day
Poignant story of middle-aged Glasgow shipbuilder (Peter Mullan), laid off from his job, who finds solace in swimming, decides to cross the English Channel and, with the help of his mates (Billy Boyd, Ron Cook, Benedict Wong and Sean McGinley), trains for the 20-miles-plus stint, unbeknown to his wife (Brenda Blethyn), ...
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On a Clear Day (CNS)
On the Waterfront
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On the Waterfront (SAM)
Once
Gritty, award-winning Irish independent film about two struggling musicians (Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova) who, through a shared love of music, forge a friendship that leads to the creation of a band, making a demo recording. The two leads are so harmonious in their acting and in their music that the ...
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Once (CNS)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Stylish third installment of the "Mariachi Trilogy" about a mysterious and nameless guitar-toting assassin (Antonio Banderas) who is forced out of hiding by a CIA operative (Johnny Depp) in order to thwart a drug lord's (Willem Dafoe) plot to kill the president of Mexico, and in exchange will be given the ...
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico (CNS)
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
Quirky melodrama about a timid garage owner (Rhys Ifans), who discovers that love is worth fighting for when his live-in girlfriend's former lover, a two-bit hood named Jimmy (Robert Carlyle), returns to reclaim her. Incorporating classic Western motifs into the film's British working-class setting, director Shane Meadows combines good performances with ...
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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (CNS)
One Day
The ineluctable charms of its source novel are sadly missing in "One Day" (Focus), a turgid adult romance about the contrasting lives of two British soul mates as traced over the course of nearly 20 years.
The appeal is supposed to be that the relationship bracketing prim Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) ...
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One Day (CNS)
One Hour Photo
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One Hour Photo
Sordid thriller in which a lonely employee (Robin Williams) of a one-hour photo lab grows obsessed with a "picture perfect" suburban family (Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan and Dylan Smith), whom he's come to know through their pictures, and begins to insinuate himself into their lives and stalk them. Writer-director Mark Romanek's ...
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One Hour Photo (CNS)
One Hour Photo
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One Missed Call
By-the-numbers (literally) remake of the 2003 Japanese film "Chakushin Ari," without either the satire or the gore of the original, involving an evil spirit that leaves messages for its victims on their cell phones. Director Eric Valette and screenwriter Andrew Klavan transfer the action to an American college town, where plucky ...
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One Missed Call (CNS)
One Night With The King
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One Night With the King
Biblical drama that tepidly recounts the Old Testament story of Esther (Tiffany DuPont), a devout Jewish maiden who becomes a queen when she is chosen as the bride of the powerful Persian King Xerxes (Luke Goss), and who uses her station to save her people from extermination by dissuading her husband ...
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One Night With the King (CNS)
Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior
Above-average martial arts action movie set in Thailand about a local scrapper (Tony Jaa) -- trained in an ancient fighting system -- who volunteers to retrieve a sacred Buddha statue revered by the locals which was stolen from the village temple by a ruthless crime boss (Sukhaaw Phongwilai) looking to sell ...
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Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior (CNS)
Opal Dream
Gently charming tale set in an Australian opal mining colony about an 8-year-old girl (Sapphire Boyce) heartsick over the disappearance of her two imaginary friends, the search for whom causes unintended consequences resulting in the locals turning against her father (Vince Colosimo), until the supportive efforts of her 11-year-old brother (Christian ...
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Opal Dream (CNS)
Open Range
Well-crafted western about a pair of cowboys (Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall) who must stand up to a ruthless rancher looking to run them out of town. While walking a fine line in its treatment of justice versus revenge and saddled with moments of heavy-handed melodrama, Costner, who wore a director's ...
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Open Range (CNS)
Open Range
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Open Season
Wacky, warm and reasonably witty computer-animated comedy about a domesticated grizzly bear (Martin Lawrence) who, trying to find his way back to comfortable civilization after being released into the wild, befriends a runty, motor-mouthed mule deer (Ashton Kutcher) and bands together with a motley menagerie of woodland creatures to run some ...
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Open Season (CNS)
Open Water
Hair-raising deep-sea thriller about a career-consumed couple (Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis) whose island vacation turns into a fight for survival when a mix-up during a scuba-diving excursion leaves them stranded in the middle of the ocean in shark-infested waters. Inspired by true events and made on a shoestring budget by ...
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Open Water (CNS)
Order, The
Problematic supernatural thriller about a maverick Catholic priest (Heath Ledger), who, while investigating his spiritual mentor's alleged suicide, travels to Rome in order to hunt down the sole remaining practitioner of an arcane medieval ritual known as "sin eating," a rite by which a person can receive absolution without recourse to ...
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Order, The (CNS)
Orphan
Atmospheric but ultimately exploitative chiller about a couple (Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga) who adopt a 9-year-old Russian-born girl (Isabelle Fuhrman) from a Catholic orphanage, only to find that her inexplicable, manipulative behavior is tearing their marriage apart, and may pose a physical threat to their two other children (Jimmy Bennett ...
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Orphan (CNS)
Other Boleyn Girl, The
Fresh telling of the oft-dramatized liaison of Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) and King Henry VIII (Eric Bana), including the monarch's break with the Catholic Church so he could divorce his first wife, Catherine of Aragon (Ana Torrent), with an emphasis on Anne's younger sister, Mary (Scarlett Johansson), who was the first ...
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Other Boleyn Girl, The (CNS)
The Other Guys
Veteran comedian Will Ferrell and comedy newcomer Mark Wahlberg play an ill-matched pair of crime-busters in "The Other Guys" (Columbia), an occasionally amusing but excessively vulgar action satire that handcuffs its talented cast with relentlessly foul-mouthed dialogue and tiresome bedroom jokes.
Ferrell is New York Police Department Detective Allen Gamble, ...
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The Other Guys (CNS)
Our Family Wedding
Who knew that so much racial harmony could be brought about simply by dancing the electric slide? That's about as deep a message as you'll find in the scattershot comedy "Our Family Wedding" (Fox Searchlight).
It's the time-honored story of how the course of young love never runs smoothly when ...
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Our Family Wedding (CNS)
Our Idiot Brother
As it follows its gentle, ridiculously naive central character's efforts to navigate his way through the cynical jungle of modern society, "Our Idiot Brother" (Weinstein) recalls such memorable screen tales as "Being There" from 1980 and 1994's "Forrest Gump." Yet, while occasionally effective—though hardly equal in impact to those earlier titles—this ...
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Our Idiot Brother (CNS)
Out of Sight
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Out of Time
Well-carpentered thriller about a small-town Florida cop (Denzel Washington) who must investigate an arson which resulted in the death of the woman with whom he was having an adulterous affair, forcing him to cover up incriminating evidence that seems to point to him as the culprit. While Carl Franklin's taut direction ...
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Out of Time (CNS)
Out to Sea
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Out to Sea (SAM)
Over the Hedge
Computer-animated comedy about a rascally raccoon (voiced by Bruce Willis) who offers to "help" a group of woodland creatures (humorously voiced by Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, Garry Shandling, William Shatner and Eugene Levy, among others) stockpile food for the coming winter by raiding the suburban housing development that has sprung up ...
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Over the Hedge (CNS)
Over Her Dead Body
Bland romantic comedy about a psychic (Lake Bell) who falls in love with her reluctant client (Paul Rudd), grieving for his fiancee who died on their wedding day a year earlier, and how the ghost of the intended bride (Eva Longoria Parker) jealously tries to sabotage the budding romance. Writer and ...
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Over Her Dead Body (CNS)
Owning Mahowny
Cautionary tale, based on actual events, about a mild-mannered Canadian bank executive (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who embezzles company cash to fuel his out-of-control gambling habits. Director Richard Kwietniowski scores big with this well-crafted character study of one man's self-destructive, downward spiral of addiction. Sporadic rough language and vulgarities as well as ...
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Owning Mahowny (CNS)
Oz the Great and Powerful
Lush visuals and sly humor boost "Oz the Great and Powerful" (Disney), director Sam Raimi's 3-D prequel to the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz."
Like its imperishable predecessor, Raimi's fantasy adventure is based on the writings of L. Frank Baum (1856-1919). This second stroll down the Yellow Brick Road, however, ...
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Oz the Great and Powerful (CNS)
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