Splat 1.5/4 |
The Game Plan (2007) |
"Parents, load up on the No-Doz and get inoculated for multiple Bedazzler jokes." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
"Like New York during the 1863 riots, `Gangs' goes up in flames, leaving us with a broken vision of what could have been." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1/4 |
Garfield the Movie (2004) |
"I went into `Garfield' knowing little about the title feline except that I held a vague hatred toward him. `Garfield' gave me specific reasons for such emotion." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) |
"...an improvement upon 2004's "Garfield" if for no other reason than the mistaken-identity plot means the annoying title feline (again inexplicably voiced by Bill Murray) has only half the screen time.
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Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) |
"Fortifying your horror film with an intellectual subtext is all well and good - Romero was one of the first to show how this could be done - but you might want to also make sure it's frightening." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005) |
"...manages enough of the pathos that has made Romero's zombie movies the paragon of the genre." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1/4 |
Georgia Rule (2007) |
"Garry Marshall has to be the most tone-deaf filmmaker at work today." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) |
"Without his music, Jackson is left stranded, an artist out of water." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Ghost Rider (2007) |
"...often looks like the cheesiest biker tattoo to ever grace bulging, leather-accented biceps." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1/4 |
Ghost Ship (2002) |
"...little more than a floating display of horror-film cliches." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) |
"Less a portrait of the Titanic than a snapshot of those obsessed by it." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Gigli (2003) |
"...a walking, talking People cover story." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
The Girl Next Door (2004) |
"...wants to be a touching romance, when the status of dumb teen sex comedy would be a lofty goal for those involved." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Glory Road (2006) |
"Disney's fact-based, sports-movie formula has become so familiar by now that watching another one of these films nearly serves as a sedative - if not outright anesthesia." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Goal! (2006) |
"...embraces its feel-good cliches with an enthusiasm that's embarrassing." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
God Grew Tired of Us (2007) |
"What does it say about the American society we've created that it makes war-scarred visitors miss their refugee camp?" |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Godfather (1972) |
"...a metaphor for creating and protecting your own business in this country - only with the added glamour of guns." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Godfather Part II (1974) |
"Shadows lurk throughout the movie, as they do over the Corleones' lives." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1/4 |
The Godfather Part III (1990) |
"Considering the way it inadvertently lampoons and nearly diminishes the earlier two films, this is nothing less than a travesty." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Godsend (2004) |
"...could have gone in numerous intriguing directions, and it chooses the worst one of all of them." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Golden Compass (2007) |
"...about as anti-God as The Chronicles of Narnia." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Gone Baby Gone (2007) |
"...trickier than it appears - and far too tricky for first-time director Ben Affleck." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Good German (2006) |
"...a fascinating exercise for cineastes, but it doesn't have a leg of its own to stand on." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Good Luck Chuck (2007) |
"...wants to position itself as a first-date movie, but it's a first-date movie for those who don't believe in second ones." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005) |
"...believes in something that perhaps only the child of a former television news anchor ... could believe in: that TV news can save the nation." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Good Shepherd (2006) |
"Daniel Craig rarely stopped flexing as the new James Bond; here Matt Damon hardly moves a muscle." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
A Good Woman (2005) |
"It isn't exactly miscasting that sabotages `A Good Woman' as much as it is the timing of the casting at hand." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
A Good Year (2006) |
"Watching Russell Crowe attempt comedy ... is a bit like watching a dancing bear at the circus. He makes the right moves, but the rhythm is all off." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) |
"...has a self-conscious panache that's years ahead of its time." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
The Gospel (2005) |
"This is a soap opera through and through, with church politics in place of sexual dalliances." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gothika (2003) |
"Trust me, if you're looking for frights, `Gothika' delivers -- and I'm not possessed or deluded." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Goya's Ghosts (2007) |
"...only captivates when Forman and his production designers echo some of the painter's more famous tableaus." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Grace is Gone (2007) |
"Cusack ... makes such a scene not showing off that he's distracting." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Gracie (2007) |
"...wouldn't know a nuance if one hit it in the face." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Gray Matters (2007) |
"Is New York City populated only by talky, insufferable singles who obsess over their trivial romantic entanglements?" |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Great Debaters (2007) |
"...enough to make you hope that one of these days Washington will forgo such conventional genre trappings and unleash his own Do the Right Thing." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
The Great Raid (2005) |
"...missing the inner heft its material requires." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) |
"If it weren't for professional obligations, `The Greatest Game Ever Played' would have been my chance for the greatest nap ever taken." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Green Street Hooligans (2005) |
"You watch the movie clutched in a defensive position." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Gridiron Gang (2006) |
"The Rock ... performs so many corny inspirational speeches that his mouth might as well transform into a triumphant horn." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Grind (2003) |
"...predictable gross-out humor and sports cliches are in ample supply." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Grindhouse (2007) |
"...offers plenty of film-buff fun, yet Rodriguez and Tarantino are, in a sense, limiting themselves." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Grizzly Man (2005) |
"...Herzog continually overstates his own film's significance..." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Grudge 2 (2006) |
"This ghost makes zombies look like Olympic sprinters." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Guardian (2006) |
"Costner plods through this story with what can best be called tact, while Kutcher lamely tries to inject bits of humor here and there. Not that director Andrew Davis notices." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) |
"...makes every other movie "escape" from a rough upbringing no longer seem so clean-cut." |
Josh Larsen |
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