Splat 2/4 |
G-Force (2009) |
"Just about the only folks likely to find this humdrum hybrid of Mission: Impossible and The Wind in the Willows worthy for consideration are non-discriminating pip-squeaks happy to watch rodents rappelling walls and scampering along air ducts." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"OK, it's seriously deficient in plot or acting. But in this genre, those two ingredients are as superfluous as canoes in a desert." |
David Hiltbrand |
Splat 2/4 |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
"An elaborately worked-over opus that's as tarted-up and artificial as Scorsese's '70s classic Mean Streets was gritty and real." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Garden State (2004) |
"Garden State, Zach Braff's lyrical directorial debut, self-consciously announces itself as a baby buster generational marker -- and richly deserves the designation." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
Garfield the Movie (2004) |
"Our 8-year-old adored it. But except for Murray's voice-over work, Mom was allergic." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Gentlemen Broncos (2009) |
"Where do you go after rocket-propelled deer statuary, cyclops warriors in golf carts, and Mike White with a dubbed Irish accent?" |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) |
"Moderately scary, moderately amusing, intermittently dull and obvious, Diary of the Dead is not groundbreaking, nor even ground-quaking." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005) |
"After a 20-year hiatus, George A. Romero, who practically invented his own creepy cinematic genre with 1968's Dawn of the Living Dead and its sequels, returns with his most ingenious and ambitious zombie film yet." |
David Hiltbrand |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Georgia Rule (2007) |
"The American public likes nothing better than a tragedy with a happy ending, William Dean Howells observed. But Marshall so cautiously downplays the tragic elements of his plot that the sweetness and light left a sour taste in my mouth." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
Gerry (2003) |
"Deserves its own wing in The Old Curiosity Shop." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat |
Get Carter (2000) |
"Moves along with virtually no rhythm, no suspense, and no spark from the morose, goateed star." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) |
"The apparent turf war between director and screenwriter results in a compromised, confusing tale of a young man trying to mark his turf." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 2/4 |
Get Smart (2008) |
"All that's missing is the spirit and the anarchic humor of the sitcom created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. The result is an overdressed, carefully stitched scarecrow of a comedy." |
David Hiltbrand |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) |
"A stunning work of animation artistry and a compelling metaphysical inquiry into what constitutes humanity and machine." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Ghost Ship (2002) |
"Although there are several truly jolting scares, there's also an abundance of hackneyed dialogue and more silly satanic business than you can shake a severed limb at." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Ghost Town (2008) |
"Ostensibly a comedy, but one in which the (normally) brilliantly funny Ricky Gervais is more dull than he is droll, Ghost Town takes a familiar formula and goes nowhere with it." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ghost World (2001) |
"Birch and Johansson inhabit Zwigoff's film with deft assurance and subtle moves." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) |
"As a romcom, it's average, but as a Matthew McConaughey romcom, it's above average. If you're a low-expectations moviegoer, this one might surprise you." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato |
The Gift (2001) |
"At its best The Gift evokes some of the creepy chills of To Kill a Mockingbird. And at its heart, there's Blanchett, an actress whose instincts are unerring, and dead-on." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (2003) |
"As tooting-your -own-horn documentaries about innovative alt-rockers who've been around for 20 years go, Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns goes very well indeed." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 1/4 |
Gigli (2003) |
"A torpid dud starring the cuddly celebrity twosome of the moment." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
The Girl (2001) |
"One senses more intensity in the female-male power dynamic than in the female-on-female couplings, which are stylishly shot but emotionally detached." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
A Girl Cut in Two (2008) |
"A cool study of erotic longing, misguided love and class warfare in the civilized spheres of French society, Claude Chabrol's A Girl Cut in Two, despite its high melodrama and wicked humor, delivers a real emotional wallop." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Girl From Monaco (2009) |
"At best diverting, at worst an almost self-parodic compendium of French film cliches." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Girl from Paris (2002) |
"A lovely, keenly observed film." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) |
"A virtual ricochet-fest of eyeball action. Those looks, those glares, those gapes, those gawks!" |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Girlfriend Experience (2009) |
"Coldly voyeuristic, the film is a piece of cultural anthropology that doesn't even pretend to get into the soul of its characters." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 1/4 |
Glitter (2001) |
"Carey, so vibrant and upbeat in music videos during the 1990s, simply does not register on the big screen." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gloomy Sunday (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
Glory Road (2006) |
"Viewed as a re-creation of a watershed moment, Glory Road is sturdy, efficient, perhaps even worthy. Taken as cinema, however, it falls far short of inspiring." |
David Hiltbrand |
Tomato 3/4 |
God Grew Tired of Us (2007) |
"Not as good, nor as complex, as The Lost Boys, but that doesn't make the story of mass annihilation, sprawling refugee camps, the generosity of Americans, and the resilience of a handful of Sudanese survivors any less worthy of telling -- again." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Gods and Generals (2003) |
"It may not be the worst war epic ever made -- that probably would be Battlefield Earth -- but it's darn close to being an unqualified disaster of that magnitude." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
Godsend (2004) |
"A murky thriller." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Godzilla (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat |
Godzilla 2000 (2000) |
"Godzilla 2000 ... is dubbed into English in a manner that's occasionally too jokey for its own good." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004) |
"Butler's mission might have been better served by giving Kerry's critics some say." |
Daniel Rubin |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gojira (1954) |
"Morally compelling aspects of Honda's film lost to Americans are now restored." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato |
The Golden Bowl (2001) |
"If not for its high-cult pedigree -- from a Henry James novel, adapted by the tony Merchant-Ivory team -- The Golden Bowl would seem the stuff of raging soap opera." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Golden Compass (2007) |
"Visually, The Golden Compass is dazzling, hopscotching from hallowed halls of academe to the Nordic tundra, from luxe manors to creepy, sci-fi-like facilities. The effects couldn't be better." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Golden Door (2007) |
"There's an old Zen saying, 'It's the journey, not the destination.' The Golden Door offers an extraordinary journey of its own." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Gomorra (2008) |
Click here to see the review. |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Gomorrah (2009) |
"It's ugly. It's powerful. But it's hard to look away." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gone Baby Gone (2007) |
"Casey's big brother has made a tough, taut mystery." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) |
"Gibney also wants to honor what it was that made Thompson a celebrity in the first place: his brilliant, blotto writing, and his ability to smell out the liars and the hypocrites and expose them for the feral beasts that they were." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Good Boy! (2003) |
"It's a gentle parable of interspecies love and loyalty and a very nice time if you don't mind a little Fido flatulence." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Good Bye, Lenin! (2004) |
"A deft balance of wistful family drama and drollery." |
Steven Rea |
Splat C |
The Good German (2006) |
"The Good German doesn't look like a period movie, and it doesn't feel like one. The black-and-white images are thin and garish, with blinding whites that destroy whatever Soderbergh is trying to do with shadow and contrast." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Good Girl (2002) |
"A small, smart indie pic with a twisted sensibility." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Good Hair (2009) |
"Good Hair is certainly no arid anthropological study. Rock's queries are loose and quippy, but his instincts are as sharp as an investigative journalist's." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005) |
"Do you respect the corporate line or do you cross it? Clooney, who in his life wears the hats both of the entertainer and the 'actorvist,' gives us an intelligent, electric film that knows this question is as timely now as it was for Murrow." |
Carrie Rickey |