Splat 1/4 |
G (2002) |
"[A] poorly acted, directed and written (but slick-looking) vanity project." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
G.I. Jesus (2006) |
"[Director] Colpaert makes nice use of blue and green hues, and he makes some valid points about the Iraqi war. But the script lacks coherence and ends with a 180-degree flip that lessens the impact of what has gone before." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 0.5/4 |
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"Formerly a real American hero, G.I. Joe is no longer a hero (it's a team) or American (it's a multinational unit of military superstars, though the way they do business you'd rather have the Croatian navy on your side). As for real, well..." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Gabrielle (2005) |
"Chilly, pretentious and talky." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Galaxy Quest (1999) |
"Affectionate, often clever and unflaggingly funny!" |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 2/4 |
Game 6 (2006) |
"The movie includes a recurring motif of immigrant taxi drivers -- like them, the movie is constantly going around in circles." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Game Over - Kasparov and the Machine (2003) |
"Vikram Jayanti's solid documentary is still fairly suspenseful." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
The Game Plan (2007) |
"Apart from a heart-tugging plot twist, some lesson learning and more random football talk, that's about it. Oh, except for the scene in which Kyra Sedgwick farts. Be sure to update your resume, Kyra." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Games of Love and Chance (2005) |
"A work of drama, it's more realistic than any TV reality show." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Games People Play: New York (2004) |
"Its thrills are too cheap to be worth a $10 movie ticket." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
"It vividly and energetically evokes a fascinating time and place that has never before been the subject of film, and presents a powerful if imperfectly coherent vision of urban politics at their most primal." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Gangster No. 1 (2002) |
"It's more than a rip-off of Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but less than the Pulp Fiction-esque genre-bender it aspires to be." |
Megan Turner |
Splat 2/4 |
Garage Days (2003) |
"A small-scale Australian musical with an appealing no-name cast whose charms are obscured by directorial self-indulgence." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Garcon Stupide (2006) |
"Swiss director Lionel Baier's Garcon Stupide features the best gay seduction scene ever filmed on a Ferris wheel. Unfortunately, you have to sit through the entire movie to get to it." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
The Garden (2009) |
"The Garden is an especially fatuous documentary, nominated for an Oscar this year, about a community garden in South Central LA where Latino farmers have been allowed to grow food on somebody else's land." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004) |
"You're either going to love this film and run out to see everything Majewski has directed, or you're going to be bored silly." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Garden Party (2008) |
"Slow ride to nowhere." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Garden State (2004) |
"Braff proves himself a master of modulation, keeping a sure grip as the film's tone shifts like quicksand from humor to pathos and back." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Gardens of the Night (2008) |
"Writer-director Jared Harris (and actor and son of the late Richard Harris) claims to have spent 10 years researching this sordid milieu, yet, for all the detail, it ends up playing like an especially lurid '80s TV movie." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 0/4 |
Garfield the Movie (2004) |
"A downright cat-astrophe." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) |
"Kids should see Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties. It'll help prepare them for a lifetime of mediocre entertainment ahead." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 1/4 |
Garmento (2003) |
"A toothless, dated Seventh Avenue satire with shaky script, direction and acting." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Gasoline (2001) |
"Stambrini and her cinematographer, Fabio Cianchetti, give the proceedings a high-tech, energetic look that keeps the thrill and entertainment levels high." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
The Gatekeeper (2002) |
"A heavy-handed immigration melodrama." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Gaudi Afternoon (2001) |
"A mildly entertaining gender-bender comedy set in Barcelona, never quite lives up to its excellent cast or the onetime promise of director Susan Seidelman." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Gay Sex in the 70's (2005) |
"The conclusion is that in this bare-chested band of brothers, what really matters is camaraderie." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Gaza Strip (2003) |
"While it is interesting to witness the conflict from the Palestinian side, Longley's film lacks balance ... and fails to put the struggle into meaningful historical context." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat |
The General's Daughter (1999) |
"So nonsensical and asinine that it would take all 14,000 miles of cable holding up the Brooklyn Bridge to suspend your disbelief." |
Rod Dreher |
Splat 2/4 |
Gentlemen Broncos (2009) |
"It tests your patience even at 90 minutes." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) |
"A movie in which victims wander as aimlessly as their undead stalkers." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005) |
"Romero has given us, as well as the zombies, a lot to chew on. There is as much allegory to his tale as there is blood, and let me tell you, there's no shortage of blood." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat .5/4 |
Georgia Rule (2007) |
"Do not take your mom to Georgia Rule unless she's Roseanne Barr. You may expect a three-generational chick flick, but what you get is a child-rape comedy." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Gerry (2003) |
"A series of images that have little meaning or emotional impact beyond their prettiness, and which become less compelling as time crawls slowly by." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat |
Get Carter (2000) |
"Stallone's Jack Carter can't shut up -- and his sentimental ramblings, accompanied by facial twitches that are apparently meant to approximate acting, are stupefying." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat |
Get Over It (2001) |
"Scarcely enough story for a half-hour TV sitcom." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) |
"The charismatic rapper is so utterly inexpressive as an actor that he's constantly getting swallowed up in his own movie." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Get Smart (2008) |
"Would you believe the new version of the '60s spy spoof Get Smart, starring Steve Carell, isn't awful -- like almost all TV-to-movie transfers -- but instead, that it's actually pretty funny (if overlong and overproduced)?" |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) |
"A self-conscious but surprisingly entertaining fusion of gangster, martial-arts and western movies." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) |
"Don't even bother trying to figure out what's going on in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence -- just sit back and enjoy the lush, trippy visuals." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Ghost Rider (2007) |
"The movie could have been saved, though, if it had cut the puns of the kind that made us all flee Batman and Robin." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 1/4 |
Ghost Ship (2002) |
"A big, incoherent bore, interesting only as an example of assembly-line movie-making gone awry." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ghost Town (2008) |
"Although ghost hijinks are a very Hollywood way of dealing with the subject, the twists are executed superbly, right up to a climax that fits the David Mamet definition of what makes for a perfect ending: It is both surprising and inevitable." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ghost World (2001) |
"As hip, funny and truthful a sleeper as has ever flown under Tinseltown's radar." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Ghosted (2009) |
"Clumsily written, mostly in English, with performances to match, the only real mystery surrounding Ghosted is how this soporific bore got made." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ghostlight (2004) |
"A bizarre and campily amusing 'tribute.'" |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) |
"I'm almost embarrassed to admit I found Ghosts of Girlfriends Past the season's first genuine guilty pleasure." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) |
"Not your usual snoozy IMAX documentary." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Ghosts of the Heartland (2009) |
"Except for Santoro, the acting and the movie itself lack much of a sense of urgency. But it gets the look right on a microscopic budget, and its heart is in the right place." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato |
The Gift (2001) |
"The smartest and scariest supernatural thriller since The Sixth Sense." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Gigantic (2008) |
"Quirk fans, prepare to be lightly exhilarated." |
Kyle Smith |
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