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

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

A ridiculous Frankenfilm, swinging for the fences with other movies’ imaginations.

| Original Score: D- | Mar 19, 2025

Everything about the messaging and plotting of “O’Dessa” is shallow.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 10, 2025

Too often it seems as if “O’Dessa” the film is striking the same note.

| Mar 9, 2025

More akin to watching a really long trailer. There’s a distinctive eye here, and a promising sense of ambition. But in its current form, there’s not enough meat on its bones to justify its 106-minute run time.

| Mar 9, 2025

O’Dessa feels less like a new movie and more like an old lost gem, finally uncovered. It’s an intoxicating pastiche of color and sound, joy and pain.

| Mar 9, 2025