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Michael O'Sullivan

Agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

Publications:: Journal News (Westchester, NY) , Washington Post

Total Reviews:: 922

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
2/4	18%	Aroused (2013)	" Too many times, "Aroused" arouses curiosity without really satisfying it." — Washington Post Posted May 3, 2013
1/4	46%	Pain & Gain (2013)	" The whole thing is played for laughs that almost never come." — Washington Post Posted Apr 26, 2013
	56%	Oblivion (2013)	" If you're able to forgive and forget, Oblivion isn't a bad place to start loving Tom Cruise all over again." — Washington Post Posted Apr 18, 2013
1.5/4	42%	To The Wonder (2013)	" The cinematography here is enough to make you swoon. Would that the story were equally compelling." — Washington Post Posted Apr 12, 2013
2/4	68%	Trance (2013)	" I came away wondering whether the headache I left the theater with was such a bad -- or even unintentional -- thing after all." — Washington Post Posted Apr 12, 2013
3/4	54%	The Company You Keep (2013)	" At its core, "The Company You Keep" is a good, solid thriller about a fugitive trying to clear his name. But it's a much more interesting movie at the edges." — Washington Post Posted Apr 12, 2013
0.5/4	0%	Silver Circle (2013)	" The fevered imagination of the film makes tea party paranoia pale in comparison." — Washington Post Posted Apr 12, 2013
3/4	87%	Tabu (2012)	" It takes a while to get to the meat of the movie, but it's well worth the wait." — Washington Post Posted Apr 5, 2013
2/4	62%	Evil Dead (2013)	" A gore fest that's just effective enough to whet fans' appetite for a sequel, even as it kills everyone else's appetite for dinner." — Washington Post Posted Apr 5, 2013
2.5/4	79%	Reality (2013)	" The satire here is finespun, and the film's conclusions ambiguous." — Washington Post Posted Apr 5, 2013
	92%	Jurassic Park: An IMAX 3D Experience (2013)	" The enthralling man-vs.-nature parable based on the late Michael Crichton's best-selling novel hasn't aged one bit." — Washington Post Posted Apr 5, 2013
4/4	97%	Ran (1985)	" By the time Kurosawa's camera comes to rest on the film's final, poignant image, a painting of the Buddha that one character had promised another would protect him from harm, the movie seemingly has accomplished the impossible: one-upping Shakespeare." — Washington Post Posted Apr 1, 2013
2.5/4	65%	Starbuck (2013)	" It's silly and a bit sappy, but it works, in a crowd-pleasing way." — Washington Post Posted Mar 29, 2013
3/4	87%	The Silence (2013)	" This is film noir at its noirest." — Washington Post Posted Mar 29, 2013
	9%	The Host (2013)	" It's a mushy and unsuspenseful melodrama." — Washington Post Posted Mar 28, 2013
0.5/4	66%	Spring Breakers (2013)	" Once a year, St. Petersburg is awash with thoughtless, unpleasant people making poor decisions. This spring, Korine is one of them." — Washington Post Posted Mar 22, 2013
2.5/4	69%	The Croods (2013)	" "The Croods" is light fare, but it explores a serious theme, if only superficially." — Washington Post Posted Mar 22, 2013
3/4	43%	Admission (2013)	" In their central roles, Rudd and Fey have a natural, unforced chemistry. John and Portia are cute as buttons, but they're also goofy, confused and flawed people." — Washington Post Posted Mar 22, 2013
2/4	29%	Upside Down (2013)	" "Upside Down" paints a pretty picture, as long as you don't think about it too much." — Washington Post Posted Mar 15, 2013
1.5/4	67%	Stoker (2013)	" "Stoker" plays out like a Kabuki "Macbeth": gallons of style slathered on a story you already know by heart." — Washington Post Posted Mar 15, 2013
1.5/4	60%	John Dies at the End (2013)	" I stopped taking notes when the woman disintegrated into a ball of writhing snakes." — Washington Post Posted Mar 15, 2013
3/4	71%	Greedy Lying Bastards (2013)	" Filmmaker Craig Scott Rosebraugh seems to take a kind of perverse glee in hauling out the worst offenders among what he calls the climate change deniers for public shaming." — Washington Post Posted Mar 8, 2013
3.5/4	92%	Lore (2013)	" "Lore" is not a love story, nor the story of a friendship. Rather, it's a story of healing and of how breaking, sometimes painfully, is often necessary before that process can begin." — Washington Post Posted Mar 8, 2013
3.5/4	89%	A Place at the Table (2013)	" It deserves to be seen, along with "Food, Inc.," "King Corn" and other muckraking food docs of recent years." — Washington Post Posted Mar 1, 2013
1.5/4	52%	Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)	" "Jack" seems designed to appeal to a very narrow, and possibly illusory, demographic: the mature moppet." — Washington Post Posted Mar 1, 2013
2/4	——	The Frankenstein Theory (2013)	" Fourteen years after "Blair Witch," has the whole found-footage-horror genre jumped the shark? Maybe. Weiner, however, manipulates its well-worn tropes deftly." — Washington Post Posted Mar 1, 2013
2/4	35%	Dark Skies (2013)	" The movie builds a moderate, if less than monumental, level of spookiness, regardless of your ignorance. It's a workmanlike piece of suspense." — Washington Post Posted Feb 22, 2013
2.5/4	58%	Snitch (2013)	" "Snitch" is protein-and-starch filmmaking at its utilitarian -- and belly-filling -- best." — Washington Post Posted Feb 22, 2013
2/4	87%	Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2013)	" They decidedly don't seem happy. And "Happy People's" decision to skate down the frozen Yenisei without examining their unhappiness more closely leaves a slight chill." — Washington Post Posted Feb 22, 2013
2/4	27%	Escape From Planet Earth 3D (2013)	" Just like its hero and his grounded starship, Escape From Planet Earth is, for much of the film, a decidedly earthbound adventure. " — Washington Post Posted Feb 19, 2013
2/4	45%	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	" A movie so schizoid in its extremes of pleasure and pain that it's hard to know how to weigh its contradictions, or even where to begin separating them." — Washington Post Posted Feb 14, 2013
2.5/4	100%	The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Live Action (2013)	" In between these bookends are some fascinating and diverse offerings." — Washington Post Posted Feb 1, 2013
2.5/4	95%	The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013: Animation (2013)	" This year's Academy Award nominees in the category of animated short film feel notably old-fashioned, quaint even." — Washington Post Posted Feb 1, 2013
1.5/4	80%	Warm Bodies (2013)	" Fans of "The Walking Dead" can keep moving; there's nothing to see here." — Washington Post Posted Feb 1, 2013
3.5/4	4%	Movie 43 (2013)	" Movie 43 is a near masterpiece of tastelessness. The anthology of 12 short, interconnected skits elevates the art form of gross-out comedy to a new height. " — Washington Post Posted Jan 25, 2013
3/4	97%	Beware Of Mr. Baker (2012)	" "Beware of Mr. Baker" is comprehensive, if somewhat overly glowing." — Washington Post Posted Jan 25, 2013
1.5/4	65%	Mama (2013)	" There's something dead and rotting at the center of "Mama," and it isn't the ghost of the woman who lends the horror film its title." — Washington Post Posted Jan 18, 2013
0.5/4	18%	Parental Guidance (2012)	" It's hard to know who exactly "Parental Guidance" was made for." — Washington Post Posted Dec 25, 2012
2/4	47%	Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D (2012)	" What the movie lacks, unfortunately, is coherence." — Washington Post Posted Dec 21, 2012
2/4	52%	This is 40 (2012)	" Overlong, unnecessarily sex-obsessed and downright nasty at times, "This Is 40" feels haphazard and unfinished, despite a few moments of laugh-out-loud humor." — Washington Post Posted Dec 21, 2012
3/4	81%	The Impossible (2012)	" It's not a momentous story about heroism writ large, but an intimate tale of the small acts of kindness and connection that can occur when people are most desperate." — Washington Post Posted Dec 21, 2012
2/4	77%	Any Day Now (2012)	" The film is sometimes swamped by its own tears." — Washington Post Posted Dec 14, 2012
3/4	94%	The Central Park Five (2012)	" How could this second crime have occurred? The film asks that question but only partly answers it, and in the process it raises an even more troubling one." — Washington Post Posted Dec 14, 2012
3/4	32%	Deadfall (2012)	" A genre characterized by often grisly violence, high style and a distinctly nihilistic outlook." — Washington Post Posted Dec 7, 2012
2/4	43%	Waiting For Lightning (2012)	" Only for the converted." — Washington Post Posted Dec 7, 2012
1.5/4	36%	The Collection (2012)	" Dull and repetitive, even by the standards of an already repetitive genre." — Washington Post Posted Nov 30, 2012
2/4	13%	Red Dawn (2012)	" Despite the more realistic battle scenes, nothing in it feels more fateful than a football game. " — Washington Post Posted Nov 21, 2012
3/4	74%	Rise of the Guardians (2012)	" A charming if slightly dark and cobwebbed animated feature about how believing in something makes it real, or real enough." — Washington Post Posted Nov 21, 2012
3/4	95%	Chasing Ice (2012)	" "Chasing Ice" aims to accomplish, with pictures, what all the hot air that has been generated on the subject of global warming hasn't been able to do: make a difference. " — Washington Post Posted Nov 16, 2012

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