Splat C |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
"One decision Gangs of New York can never quite make is whether its primary disposition is toward punctilious social history or operatic amplifications of reality." |
Nick Davis |
Splat D |
Garden State (2004) |
"It's dispiriting to see such a pandering and clunkily written picture get so puffed up with a belief in its own integrity; the movie has a Shins CD where its heart should be." |
Nick Davis |
Splat C |
Genova (2008) |
"[Winterbottom] can't quite decide which well-trodden path to walk, either of domestic drama or of supernatural riddle, which should have been a sign that he hasn't really committed to this project." |
Nick Davis |
Tomato A- |
Georgia (1995) |
"Might be my favorite example of a movie that compels you toward binaristic assumptions but keeps outwitting them, with its immersed conviction in the palpable, sonic, psychological, atmospheric world that it inhabits and constructs." |
Nick Davis |
Splat D |
Get Over It (2001) |
"There's something almost perverse about a show that only comes alive as the curtain rises and falls..." |
Nick Davis |
Tomato A |
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) |
"An act of pure, unadulterated creativity that boasts its narrative gambles and poetic whimsy as badges of honor... One of the most improbably gorgeous films of the year." |
Nick Davis |
Splat D- |
The Gift (2001) |
"Stilted, obvious, and cruel... No longer an absurdist of gore, Raimi is now a reveler in it." |
Nick Davis |
Tomato B+ |
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) |
"Girl... is one of the smartest and least cluttered of all the holiday season's new films, not to mention one of the most well-acted and visually sumptuous." |
Nick Davis |
Splat C- |
Give Me Your Hand (2009) |
"It's almost hard to see the movie inside all the recycled beats and diaphanous construction, much less to feel its pulse." |
Nick Davis |
Splat C+ |
Gladiator (2000) |
"Even when Gladiator turns nonsensical, and even when its effects shots aren't persuasive, it's hard to look away, and its 154 minutes flew by." |
Nick Davis |
Tomato B- |
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) |
"For all of [its] advantages, Glengarry Glen Ross is as hopelessly stagebound as any theatrical adaptation I've ever seen." |
Nick Davis |
Tomato B |
Gloria (1980) |
"A reasonably entertaining and refreshingly off-beat action/drama." |
Nick Davis |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Godfather (1972) |
"Is it really possible that this bears repeating? The Godfather is extraordinary." |
Nick Davis |
Tomato B |
Gods and Monsters (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Nick Davis |
Tomato B- |
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004) |
"Going Upriver is lucky enough to have at its disposal a genuinely charismatic figure whose sense of his own citizenship is rigorous, questioning, and articulate." |
Nick Davis |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Gold Rush (1925) |
"One of Chaplin's very funniest movies; not as indelibe as Modern Times, but close." |
Nick Davis |
Splat D+ |
The Golden Bowl (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Nick Davis |
Tomato B+ |
Good Bye, Lenin! (2004) |
"A political comedy that reaches you right down in your soul, reminding us without any Benigni-ish moral frivolity that life sure is complicated, but it is also beautiful." |
Nick Davis |
Splat C+ |
The Good Fairy (1935) |
"This strange, uncertain film doesn't augur or embody Wyler's subsequent trademarks so much as it calls them into relief through their very absence." |
Nick Davis |
Splat C |
The Good Thief (2003) |
"This is not a movie that anyone would steal...[a] superficially pleasing work that a single good night's sleep can erase from memory." |
Nick Davis |
Tomato 3/5 |
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) |
"Not as cloying as you might think; Donat is engaging, and Greer Garson is simply luminous." |
Nick Davis |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Goonies (1985) |
"A teen and pre-teen adventure tale fondly remembered by everyone I know." |
Nick Davis |
Tomato B+ |
Grand Hotel (1932) |
"Movie stars existed before Grand Hotel, and yet this picture seems to reinvent the whole concept right before your dazzled eyes." |
Nick Davis |
Tomato 5/5 |
Grand Illusion (1937) |
"You don't know war films can be like this until you see it: elegant, humane, seriocomic, deeply wounded, with a sublime regard for life that exceeds all borders." |
Nick Davis |
Splat C |
The Great Ziegfeld (1936) |
"Contrary to the most famous nugget of showbiz wisdom, the movie leaves us wanting considerably less than we're given." |
Nick Davis |
Splat D- |
The Green Mile (1999) |
"A deeply racist movie, though clearly none of the filmmakers thinks so... By the picture's end, we are asked to grasp electrocution as in some way an act of benevolence." |
Nick Davis |
Tomato B |
Groundhog Day (1993) |
"The movie deserves its fans, earns our respect, delivers richly on its initial promises if not always on its greater ones, and rewards multiple viewings, even as it carries a built-in joke about the typical shelf-life of repeated experience." |
Nick Davis |
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