At 118 minutes it is an hour shorter than the play. As with any theatrical adaptation, it relies on the dialogue and the acting, and both are strong. You come to know the men in this room, and the husband and wife who want them to succeed.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 18, 2021

The film is at its strongest when it uses their individual journeys during the negotiations to serve as metaphors for the complicated emotions and human suffering intertwined in the larger Israeli-Palestinian mess.

| Jun 9, 2021

Ruth Wilson in particular embodies a plaintiveness that's heart-wrenching.

| Jun 1, 2021

Directed by Bartlett Sher and adapted by the play's author J.T. Rogers, "Oslo" serves as a haunting portrayal of what was, and a sobering reflection on conditions as they currently exist.

| Jun 1, 2021

Rogers' stage play is a smart, mature piece of writing, but one that transfers rather clumsily to the small screen, in part because its makers don't show quite the same confidence in their audience's intelligence.

| May 31, 2021

The film never shuffles off its theatrical roots ... there's an almost visceral feeling of how much better this probably worked onstage before a live audience.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 28, 2021

Oslo provides a sense of grim irony. The side with which it aligns our perspective tip its hand toward a certain version of history that feels jarringly out of step with our current reality.

| May 27, 2021

Scott is enormously sympathetic walking on eggshells among the spiky guests and jokingly wondering if they'll be murdered in their sleep by Asfour.

| May 26, 2021

The actors sell most of this stuff... along with lots of information, some of it elementary but much of it steeped in gnarly transactional mechanics.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 26, 2021