Michael O'Sullivan

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Washington Post
For 1,854 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 48% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 50% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 5.7 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Michael O'Sullivan's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Flipside
Lowest review score: 0 Tomcats
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,051 out of 1854
  2. Mixed: 394 out of 1854
  3. Negative: 409 out of 1854
1854 movie reviews
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    • 37 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Mercury Rising
    But the real treat is seeing Big Daddy Bruce playing the papa bear part to the little lost boy. Sure, he loves his handgun, but for once Willis seems to enjoy his nurturing side as much as his Glock 19. [3 Apr 1998, p.N53]
    • Washington Post
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
    Far filthier and a good bit funnier than Trey Parker and Matt Stone's sophomoric cable TV show ever dared to be.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Coffee and Cigarettes
    Jarmusch's use of yin/yang, dark/light and good/evil symbolism makes glorious if goofy sense.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    One Night at McCool's
    First-time feature director Harald Zwart has a real flair for farce, and he keeps the outrageous high jinks of the script lively yet grounded in reality.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Next Stop Wonderland
    Shot with a shaky hand-held camera, Wonderland is a sentimental fairy tale with a gritty documentary feel.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Monster
    An okay movie made nearly great by one great thing: the bravura, mercilessly watchable performance of Charlize Theron.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Owning Mahowny
    As channeled by the extraordinary Hoffman, Dan Mahowny is less a freak than a nerve-deadened Everyman with the courage to search for something that makes him feel alive.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Shaolin Soccer
    Shaolin Soccer really loves what it mocks, after all, and that grandly goofy affection -- nay, joy -- for all things chop socky is purely, utterly contagious.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Runaway Jury
    A taut, escapist legal thriller.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
    May not change the world, but it's deeply creepy and richly satisfying.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    The X Files
    Like the TV show, The X-Files movie is stylish, scary, sardonically funny and at times just plain gross.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Son of the Bride
    Sweet without being saccharine, sad without being maudlin and funny without being forced.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    The Cider House Rules
    More honest than any conventional morality tale. Here there are no heroes and no real villains; the good guys are all flawed and even bad guys are sometimes capable of the noblest of acts.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Shadow Magic
    It's a film about culture clash, the generation gap and the loss of tradition that inevitably accompanies the arrival of anything new.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Bulworth
    It's daring, deliberately offensive and, for a comedy, it has far more ideas in it than actual laughs.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Big Trouble
    Zigging and zagging serenely between the extremes of deadpan, postmodern comedy and the antic, Max Sennett-style japery of yore.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    A Dirty Shame
    Returns to the wicked mix of transgression and positivity epitomized by "Pecker" and "Hairspray."
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
    Engrossing, educational, amusing and disturbing. And who could ask for more than that from a film?
    • 48 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Lucky Break
    Apart from the deja vu all over again, Lucky Break is no worse a film than "Breaking Out," and "Breaking Out" was utterly charming.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Max
    Fascinating story.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Blind Shaft
    Powerful yet ambiguous.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Water Lilies
    It's a world where every emotion feels like the earth moving, and where the shifting tectonics of young lust and friendship, along with the lifelong lessons of a broken heart, have never felt more real.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    The Best of Youth
    Works as both historical allegory and moving family drama.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Sliding Doors
    This is the lightest, brightest and tightest film confection to come down the date pike in quite some time.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    It's a story of jaw-dropping chutzpah, grim, mostly hindsight-based humor and more stomach-churning drama than you could find in 10 screenplays.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Vengo
    Feels like a song you may have heard before, but one whose aching beauty makes it endlessly listenable.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    Spellbound
    Could hardly be more suspenseful if it were scripted.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    The Luzhin Defence
    Where it succeeds best is not in describing how Luzhin got broken but how love fixed him, albeit temporarily.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    The Core
    A two-hour pleasure cruise.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Michael O'Sullivan
    S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
    Modest but nonetheless devastating documentary.
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