Yep, he's an odd one all right. You're likely to get tired of hearing about it pretty quick, though.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 28, 2014

Odd Thomas is an engagingly lightweight and occasionally visually inventive film that should appeal to Koontz fans and anyone else open to his whimsical approach to horror.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2014

An endearing, witty romantic dramedy-slash-supernatural-thriller about a small desert town in California beset by demonic apparitions and a satanic cabal of deranged would-be mass murderers.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 28, 2014

They've given this once-promising character a fate similar to death-a pretty bad movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 28, 2014

At once comic, tragic and goofily romantic, and resting too often on Odd's clarifying narration, this young-adult lark breaches the nonsense barrier with some regularity.

| Feb 27, 2014

Odd Thomas has high-speed chases, explosions, narrow escapes and masses of special effects-none special enough, I'm afraid, to save it from mediocrity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2014

This expensive-looking indie, adapted from a supernatural book series by sci-fi author Dean Koontz, tries too hard for a wacky tone, and winds up merely brain-dead.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 27, 2014

In adapting Dean Koontz's series, Sommers nails the hero but bungles the world-building. Odd predicts mythological violence, but the climactic wreckage we see on screen is too real for what should play out as weightless entertainment.

| Feb 27, 2014

What worked so well for Anton Yelchin as the protagonist of "Fright Night" - scrappy, clever young guy fights supernatural evil - falls flat in this adaptation of a Dean Koontz novel from director Stephen Sommers.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 27, 2014

A protective layer of irony ensures that the movie's commingling of the mundane and the bizarre never registers as camp.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 27, 2014

Think Gilmore Girls, if there were an episode where Satan possessed Rory. Still, there are signs of life among all the dead.

| Feb 25, 2014

Cast and crew generate an enjoyable sense of community in Odd's hometown. Odd Thomas just doesn't leave us with much desire to return there.

| Feb 25, 2014

The books' juggling of tricky tonal and narrative devices translates into a screen result less clever than arbitrary and silly.

| Oct 21, 2013