Tomato 3/4 |
G (2002) |
"Bottom line: It works even if you’ve never heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald. But it’s twice as much fun if you have." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Game Plan (2007) |
"A comedy so formulaic and uninspired that you'd swear you've seen the movie before." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
"Its accomplishments are astounding, as are its flaws, but even its shortcomings are worn as proudly as scars from a bloody street battle." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Garden State (2004) |
"Likable enough when it isn't trying too hard to be self-consciously quirky." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 1.5/4 |
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) |
"Few things are as intolerable as schlock that takes itself seriously. Diary of the Dead, the latest zombie epic from George Romero, falls into that trap." |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005) |
"Nope, there's not much here. But it's still good, cheesy fun." |
Robert W. Butler |
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Get Carter (2000) |
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Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
Get Over It (2001) |
"It's predictable but charming and just the thing to take some of the sting out of this season of box-office discontent." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) |
"50? Well, as an actor he’s a great rapper. His inexperience shows." |
David Frese |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Get Smart (2008) |
"All this plays like a pale retread of a Mission: Impossible script. Which would be fine if Get Smart were actually funny." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat |
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) |
"In this anime it's a basset hound that brings the only bits of warmth." |
Robert Folsom |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Ghost Ship (2002) |
"A waste of a great setting and some talented actors." |
Loey Lockerby |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ghost Town (2008) |
"Ghost Town works so well you just want to sit back and say 'Ahhhh.'" |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
Ghost World (2001) |
"Has many pleasures, not the least of which are some devilishly good performances." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
The Gift (2001) |
"Even if you see the trick ending coming a block away (as many a viewer will), there's still some pretty wonderful emoting to relish." |
Robert W. Butler |
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Gilda (1946) |
"Interview with director Elaina Archer about her documentary on Rita Hayworth, "Rita."" |
Dan Lybarger |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Girl Cut in Two (2008) |
"At age 78, director Claude Chabrol is more than capable of giving us a completely realized world." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat |
The Girl Next Door (2004) |
"Honestly, it's interchangeable with any of those early '80s late-night cable staples whose posters featured close-ups of babes in bikinis." |
Loey Lockerby |
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The Girl on the Bridge (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) |
"Come to it wide awake and fully caffeinated or risk drifting off into a beauty-induced coma." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Girlfight (2000) |
"Rodriguez is extraordinary. It's such a flawless matching of actress to role that it's almost impossible to say how much of her performance is acting, how much comes naturally." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
The Girlfriend Experience (2009) |
"Grey is comfortable in front of the camera (and this time she gets to keep most of her clothes on), but her range is limited." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Girls Rock! (2008) |
"It’s a great program and a great subject, but Girl’s Rock! directors Shane King and Arne Johnson don’t quite know what to do with it." |
Loey Lockerby |
Splat |
Gladiator (2000) |
"Gladiator becomes a sterile deconstruction of bloodshed." |
Robert W. Butler |
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The Glass House (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert W. Butler |
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God's Army (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/5 |
Gods and Generals (2003) |
"There's so much going on here -- and so much of it is indifferently staged, photographed and acted ... -- that the film quickly loses focus." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat |
Godzilla 2000 (2000) |
"Short on real excitement." |
Robert Trussell |
Tomato |
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004) |
"This documentary is blissfully free of overt electioneering. And there are extended passages in which Kerry takes a back seat and his fellow Vietnam vets become the leading men." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat |
The Golden Bowl (2001) |
"After two hours of stilted dialogue (delivered by usually reliable performers who here seem totally at sea) and lush photography, your average viewer will have been massaged into a near-comatose state." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Golden Compass (2007) |
"By the last reel The Golden Compass has created a magical environment we believe in completely. It’s a Herculean task that Weitz and his collaborators handle with seeming effortlessness, leaving us ready for more." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Golden Door (2007) |
"Although it has a gorgeous, lyrical visual style, it contains no stirring speeches or sentimentality." |
Loey Lockerby |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gomorrah (2009) |
"The performances are so “real” they don’t seem like acting at all." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gone Baby Gone (2007) |
"A tightly controlled, carefully modulated piece of drama that will keep you thinking long after you’ve left the theater." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) |
"Gone in 60 Seconds wins our grudging admiration. It's not easy to make a diverting film that's essentially about nothing." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 1/4 |
Gooby (2009) |
"Instead of inspiring children to be brave and loving, it will most likely send them cowering under the covers in terror. They’ve already got Chucky movies for that." |
Loey Lockerby |
Tomato 3/4 |
Good Bye, Lenin! (2004) |
"Often droll and clever but rarely genuinely funny. Its real power asserts itself only in the final reel, when a genuine sense of melancholia settles in." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Good Girl (2002) |
"By turns very dark and very funny." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Good Hair (2009) |
"Despite the padding, there’s enough interesting sociological digging here -- not to mention the easygoing presence of comic Chris Rock -- to keep us entertained and even enlightened." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005) |
"A triumph, a lean, claustrophobic and unexpectedly funny history lesson so beautifully written and superbly played that you may not even notice it’s good for you." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Good Shepherd (2006) |
"If you’re looking for action, The Good Shepherd will be a letdown. But as a deep meditation on the nature of espionage, it’s a minor classic." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
A Good Woman (2005) |
"As a rule I’m a pushover for Oscar Wilde’s brand of high-flown drollery. But A Good Woman, director Mike Barker’s film version of Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, left me high, dry and grumpy." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
A Good Year (2006) |
"One suspects it was a lot more fun to make this movie than it is to watch it." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Goodbye Solo (2009) |
"A memorable study in humanity rather than the sentimental bath it might have been." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) |
"Nothing wrong with potty talk. But if that’s all a movie has to offer, the humor quickly evaporates." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
Gosford Park (2001) |
"The most enjoyable Altman effort in nearly a decade." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Gothika (2003) |
"A terribly silly movie only slightly elevated by Berry's panicked performance." |
Robert W. Butler |
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Goya in Bordeaux (2000) |
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Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Gracie (2007) |
"For anyone who’s ever had an adolescent girl in the house, Gracie will be both eerily familiar and a bit scary." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Gran Torino (2008) |
"Maybe it’s his no-nonsense style -- unaffected acting, matter-of-fact cinematography, the deft juggling of emotional opposites -- but Gran Torino seems to unfold effortlessly in the hands of a master." |
Robert W. Butler |