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Critics / Publications / Kansas City Star

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Authors
    • Shawn Bowers
    • Robert W. Butler
    • Sharon Chapman
    • Derek Donovan
    • John Mark Eberhart
    • Timothy Finn
    • Robert Folsom
    • David Frese
    • Leah Green
    • James Hart
    • Jason Heck
    • Sharon Hoffmann
    • Steve Kobak
    • Loey Lockerby
    • Dan Lybarger
    • Brian McTavish
    • Eric Melin
    • Nell Minow
    • Steve Paul
    • Sam Sessa
    • Rasmi Simhan
    • Hampton Stevens
    • Ward Triplett III
    • Robert Trussell
    • Calvin Wilson
    • Eric Winkler

Kansas City Star

  
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Rating Title Year Quote Author

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."

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

-

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

-

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

-

The Girl on the Bridge (1999)

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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

-

The Glass House (2001)

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Robert W. Butler

-

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

-

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

  
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