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97 Reviews by Michael O'Sullivan
97 Reviews by
Michael O'Sullivan
of Washington Post
Movie: Turtles Can Fly
Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:45 PM
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
It's a soaring achievement, without ever leaving the ground.
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Movie: Other Side of the Street, The
Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:40 PM
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
The Other Side of the Street is more love story than thriller, with the mystery providing only sl...
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Movie: Rebound
Release date: 7/1/2005
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
I remember that I actually did laugh, once. I just can't remember what I laughed at.
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Movie: Perfect Man, The
Release date: 6/17/2005
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
The movie doesn't even seem to know how disturbing, at its heart, its subject matter is, so that ...
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Movie: Rock School
Release date: 6/3/2005
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Entertaining portrait of a volatile but effective educator.
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Movie: Saving Face
Release date: 5/27/2005
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
A laugh riot it is not. A sweet, true and, at times, universal love story it is.
73 other reviews of this movie
Movie: XXX: State of the Union
Release date: 4/29/2005
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
The film's story remains as defiantly impervious to logic as its hero is to bullets.
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Movie: Happily Ever After
Release date: 4/8/2005
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
It's French. It's sexy. It's got a killer soundtrack.
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Movie: Walk on Water
Release date: 3/4/2005
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Fox's film seems to say that the kind of saintly purity that would enable one to walk on water --...
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Movie: Up and Down
Release date: 2/25/2005
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Serious stuff, to be sure, but hilarious touches abound.
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Movie: Son of the Mask
Release date: 2/18/2005
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
A film top-heavy with joyless Tex Avery-style special effects and a dancing-baby bit embarrassing...
87 other reviews of this movie
Movie: My Mother Likes Women
Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:38 PM
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Less side-splitting than a sad reminder of the past.
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Movie: Lana's Rain
Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:37 PM
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Clumsily under-written and feverishly overacted, it's as embarrassing to watch as it is perplexin...
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Movie: Monsieur N.
Release date: 12/3/2004
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Unfortunately, that same suspense -- Poisoned wine! Secret pacts! Doppelgangers! -- is sometimes ...
17 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Dirty Shame, A
Release date: 9/24/2004
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
It's just that the movie is so gosh-darned, I don't know, cuddly -- in a perverse, John Waters ki...
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Movie: Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Release date: 8/27/2004
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
The action sequences are phony-looking; the dialogue sounds largely improvised on the fly; the la...
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Movie: Bang Rajan
Release date: 8/6/2004
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
It becomes, after a while, little more than a mind-numbing bloodbath.
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Movie: Twentynine Palms
Release date: 4/9/2004
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
It's alternately monotonous, hot and dramatic, which makes for a peculiar, not entirely unsatisfy...
30 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Since Otar Left
Release date: 4/9/2004
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
A small film of surpassing beauty and sadness.
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Movie: Die Mommie Die!
Release date: 10/31/2003
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
All this probably worked much better as a stage production.
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Movie: Good Boy!
Release date: 10/10/2003
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
A simple but perfectly satisfying little story about a boy who wants to keep his dog.
72 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Bubba Ho-Tep
Release date: 9/19/2003
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Neither particularly funny nor scary, but tiresome.
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Movie: Jeepers Creepers 2
Release date: 8/29/2003
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Functional but tiresome.
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Movie: Boat Trip
Release date: 3/21/2003
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
So much for subtlety, not to mention sensitivity to stereotypes.
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Movie: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Release date: 2/14/2003
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Deeply creepy and richly satisfying.
52 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Caterina in the Big City
Release date: 1/1/2003
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
A blend of gentle comedy and poignant drama.
25 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Sky Blue
Release date: 1/1/2003
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
The more traditionally drawn 2-D human characters are as flat, in every sense of the word, as can...
26 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Murderous Maids, The
Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:38 PM
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Troubling and powerful.
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Movie: Half Past Dead
Release date: 11/15/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Here, common sense flies out the window, along with the hail of bullets, none of which ever seem ...
81 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Naqoyqatsi
Release date: 10/18/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Filmmaking at its purest and most visceral.
50 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Pokemon 4Ever
Release date: 10/11/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Its save-the-planet message clashes with its crass marketing.
26 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Never Again
Release date: 7/12/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Full of the kind of obnoxious chitchat that only self-aware neurotics engage in.
58 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Me Without You
Release date: 7/5/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Feels like a late-baby-boomer family album.
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Movie: Elling
Release date: 5/29/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
A charming but slight comedy.
44 other reviews of this movie
Movie: National Lampoon's Van Wilder
Release date: 4/5/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Execrable.
76 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Margarita Happy Hour
Release date: 3/22/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
With its parade of almost perpetually wasted characters ... Margarita feels like a hazy high that...
19 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Big Fat Liar
Release date: 2/8/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Manages to be sweet and wickedly satisfying at the same time.
45 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Happenstance
Release date: 11/2/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
An utterly delightful fable of romantic destiny.
19 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Scary Movie 2
Release date: 7/4/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
It's a lot more tightly focused than the first outing.
72 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Animal, The
Release date: 6/1/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Schneider manages to make it all more palatable than nauseating, genial rather than an affront to...
52 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Luzhin Defence, The
Release date: 4/20/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Just as Hicks did for the keyboard, Gorris makes the chessboard sexy, mostly by focusing not on i...
50 other reviews of this movie
Movie: With A Friend Like Harry
Release date: 4/20/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Very funny, in that morbid sort of way that makes you laugh even as you shudder with horror.
41 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Shadow Magic
Release date: 4/6/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
It's a film about film, and Hu's love of the medium's storytelling power shines through every fra...
35 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Along Came A Spider
Release date: 4/6/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Freeman's performance -- one of laserlike perspicacity shining through eyes made narrow by a laco...
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Movie: Day I Became A Woman, The
Release date: 4/6/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Short on drama but long on poetry.
35 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Monkeybone
Release date: 2/23/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Is it funny? Fitfully, but not consistently enough.
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Movie: Beautiful Creatures
Release date: 1/19/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Why should boys have all the fun in the movies?
39 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Bounce
Release date: 11/17/2000
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
It's a love story, yes, but one whose sweetness is cut by honest performances, a sharply drawn su...
39 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Bring It On
Release date: 8/25/2000
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
The tart, taut script by first-time screenwriter Jessica Bendinger is stuffed with such delicious...
32 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Whatever It Takes
Release date: 3/24/2000
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
West, Franco, O'Keefe and Sokoloff are fine. It's just the dynamic of the callous jock/lovable od...
36 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Kirikou and the Sorceress
Release date: 2/18/2000
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Kirikou and the Sorceress's surprising honesty about the banality of evil makes the movie -- even...
12 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Office Space
Release date: 2/19/1999
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
An enjoyable experience!
44 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Payback
Release date: 2/5/1999
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
A sharp and funny script, understated acting, stylish.
31 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Shakespeare in Love
Release date: 12/25/1998
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
So consistently intelligent that seduction is inevitable!
83 other reviews of this movie
Movie: You've Got Mail
Release date: 12/18/1998
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
This film made me feel like a Christmas goose being fattened for slaughter. Its force-fed diet of...
66 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Enemy of the State
Release date: 11/20/1998
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
My mistake was bringing my head into the theater in the first place.
32 other reviews of this movie
Movie: I'll Be Home for Christmas
Release date: 11/13/1998
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Too sophisticated for thumb-suckers, but far too stupid for anyone else.
12 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Waterboy, The
Release date: 11/6/1998
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Formulaic!
18 other reviews of this movie
Movie: American History X
Release date: 10/28/1998
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Arrestingly photographed, and boasting another intelligent and muscular performance by the chamel...
58 other reviews of this movie
Movie: One True Thing
Release date: 9/18/1998
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
One True Thing celebrates the very things you don't miss, or even know exist, until they are gone...
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Movie: Permanent Midnight
Release date: 9/16/1998
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Unsettling and-yes-often scorchingly funny!
10 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Girls Town
Release date: 12/31/1996 11:01:32 PM
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
Constructed without a traditional denouement, Girls Town will nevertheless satisfy viewers who wa...
14 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Big Red One, The
Release date: 12/31/1980 11:01:27 PM
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(7/0)
What the movie may lack in Saving Private Ryan-style gloss, it more than makes up for in authenti...
28 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Alamo, The
Release date: 4/9/2004
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Absorbing yet ever-so-slightly jaundiced retelling.
117 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Walking Tall
Release date: 4/2/2004
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Walking Tall actually underserves its star, who is better than schlocky material like this would ...
59 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Perfect Score, The
Release date: 1/30/2004
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Talks a pretty good game, but in the end the numbers just don't add up to much.
73 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Tokyo Godfathers
Release date: 1/16/2004
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Gritty yet surprisingly touching story.
51 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Taking Sides
Release date: 12/31/2003 11:01:45 PM
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
The notions of the good man's complicity through inertia ... are ones that have been more powerfu...
47 other reviews of this movie
Movie: My Flesh and Blood
Release date: 11/28/2003
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Poignant, heartbreaking proof that, sometimes, love is just not enough.
26 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Party Monster
Release date: 9/5/2003
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Never goes deeper than what you might get out of Dr. Phil on a bad day.
43 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Phone Booth
Release date: 4/4/2003
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
What keeps Phone Booth going, despite its premise, is the acting and the writing, both of which a...
154 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Star Trek: Nemesis
Release date: 12/13/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
The cheesiness so endemic to the Star Trek franchise ... is back in full force.
118 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times
Release date: 11/22/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Junkerman's dull film, and its important if inflammatory message, will bore all but Chomsky's fel...
21 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Who Is Cletis Tout?
Release date: 7/26/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
It's just a little too self-satisfied.
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Movie: Notorious C.H.O.
Release date: 6/28/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
A raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted Korean American stand-up's I'm the One...
56 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Deuces Wild
Release date: 5/3/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Propelled not by characters but by caricatures.
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Movie: Space Station 3-D
Release date: 4/19/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Makes even the claustrophobic on-board quarters seem fun.
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Movie: Count of Monte Cristo, The
Release date: 1/25/2002
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
...a mediocre production that nevertheless will strike a deep and resonant chord with viewers.
40 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Wedding for Bella, A
Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:48 PM
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Enriched by a strong and unforced supporting cast.
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Movie: Other Side of Heaven, The
Release date: 12/14/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Your stomach for Heaven depends largely on your appetite for canned corn.
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Movie: Ocean's Eleven
Release date: 12/7/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Sleek, well-muscled and brisk...
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Movie: Out Cold
Release date: 11/21/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
I can't imagine why anyone would pay money to see this sorry excuse for a film.
41 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Tape
Release date: 11/2/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Implodes under the weight of its own 'excessive linguistic pressure.'
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Movie: Hearts in Atlantis
Release date: 9/28/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Hicks's film is magical, but its magic comes not from the inexplicable phenomena we most commonly...
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Movie: Tortilla Soup
Release date: 8/24/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
A filling but unoriginal dish.
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Movie: Crimson Rivers, The
Release date: 6/29/2001
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
It ends up being more about stage blood and stupid plot tricks.
45 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Wonder Boys
Release date: 11/8/2000
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Sexy and wry.
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Movie: Nurse Betty
Release date: 9/8/2000
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
This year's Being John Malkovich.
58 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Mission to Mars
Release date: 3/10/2000
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
For an adventure film, M2Mis shockingly slack in the tension department.
55 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Next Best Thing, The
Release date: 3/3/2000
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Two movies in one, and there's not enough breathing room for both of them.
26 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Galaxy Quest
Release date: 12/25/1999
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
The wisecracks fly fast and furious.
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Movie: Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
Release date: 12/10/1999
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
The story of a schmo who finds love by prostituting himself is actually funnier than it deserves ...
39 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Bone Collector, The
Release date: 11/5/1999
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Washington is, as usual, simply marvelous.
41 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Double Jeopardy
Release date: 9/24/1999
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Incredibly Implausible!
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Movie: American Pie
Release date: 7/9/1999
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Deliriously raunchy!
43 other reviews of this movie
Movie: Way Home, The
Release date: 12/31/1994 11:01:48 PM
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Profoundly moving without dipping into mawkishness.
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Movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Release date: 12/31/1975 11:01:38 PM
Review by Michael O'Sullivan of Washington Post:
(3/4) No reference
Ah, bless the Pythons, back after 26 years to get medieval all over again on the legend of King A...
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