Perhaps O'Dessa's target audience is aimed at theatre kids in the middle of a '90s phase, but not many others.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 4, 2025

As much as the final destination is an overdrawn climax, the performances, the visuals, and the eclectic soundtrack in O'Dessa make the journey through Satylite City a memorable one.

| Original Score: B | Apr 3, 2025

It’s not so much that this film is a mess, but it can’t get out of its own way when trying to settle on the best way to mash up multiple genres.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Apr 2, 2025

Despite its occasionally infectious energy, it largely fails to connect on any level beyond the aesthetic. It’s a song that ends in dissonance, a smorgasbord of music videos in search of a compelling emotional throughline.

| Mar 31, 2025

For all its originality, O’Dessa can’t help but get tangled up in its own mythology, dragged down by a romance that never sizzles.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 31, 2025

Too silly to be taken serious and too serious to work as camp or satire, this sloggy apocalyptic musical fantasy has no energy or passion behind it.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Mar 25, 2025

It is the product of an alien intelligence, and while it might appeal to children at a specific developmental age, I don’t know whether that’s good or bad or what that sweet spot is.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 24, 2025

O’Dessa has so much going on, yet feels naggingly irrelevant and insubstantial on all fronts. It’s likely destined to find long-term traction as a cult film, but it never worked for me in the slightest.

| Mar 24, 2025

O’dessa consistently edges towards but steps over (and occasionally stomps on) anything embracing the sultry, moody, or electrifying. It's a music film that never fully commits to the music.

| Original Score: C | Mar 22, 2025

Despite the best efforts of the committed Sink and scenery-chewing supporting turns from Murray Bartlett and Regina Hall, it adds up to an exhausting spectacle that is more irritating than it is endearing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2025

This audacious rock opera packs plenty of ambition but flies a bit too close to the sun.

| Mar 21, 2025

O'Dessa wants to be a cool synthpop musical with the style of Romeo + Juliet. Unfortuantely, the Sadie Sink led showcase would make Austin Butler laugh at the accent work and lack of substance.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Mar 21, 2025

Visually thrilling yet narratively flat, this fever-dream dystopian rock opera has style and attitude to spare, even if the cumulative impact is rather head-scratching.

| Mar 21, 2025

Big and weird and kinda dopey … and I loved every minute of it.

| Mar 21, 2025

This rock opera proves that there’s a huge difference between a big swing and a big swing and a miss.

| Mar 21, 2025

Is a cliché turned on its head still a cliché? “O’Dessa” will keep you wondering, and that counts for something.

| Mar 20, 2025

A rock musical like 'O’Dessa' only works if it sufficiently rocks, and 'O’Dessa' somewhat rocks.

| Mar 20, 2025

“O’Dessa” doesn’t lack for energy and even chutzpah but fails to do what it must do in order for us to be invested about its radical nonsense: care one bit about its characters’ fate.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 20, 2025

O’Dessa is a rambling mess of a movie musical that has ambition but little substance to back it up, whether it’s in a barrage of largely empty songs or in senseless plot and character developments that leave one confused about how to feel.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2025

“O’Dessa” hits some energetic musical notes. However, the film wrestles with too many competing ideas to find a coherent enough footing.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 20, 2025