the way JT Rogers evolves his main players from a gaggle of Basil Expositions into distinctive individuals is impressive and entertaining stagecraft, but it doesn't reinforce realism
JT 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
illuminating and timely; the film nonetheless is an engrossing, unfailingly lucid account of a momentous political breakthrough that interrupted a decades-long impasse
"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
"Oslo" believes it is empathetic and balanced (which is questionable enough), but its skewed scales are essentially a consequence of an inbuilt Hollywood gaze
by Bob Strauss [San Francisco Chronicle ]
by Rahul Desai [First Post ]
