Splat |
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"A slightly more pleasurable experience than Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. But then again, so is a prolapsed colon." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
"You'd have to look back to Apocalypse Now to find a film on so grand a scale so warped by its creator's obsessions... Gangs is history written in blood." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Garden State (2004) |
"Rookie mistakes abound, but Braff regards his characters with respectful curiosity-- he's too sharply intuitive a filmmaker to wreck his jokes by pounding on them too hard." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005) |
"...a broad, very amusing sociological polemic with a couple decent scares thrown in as an afterthought.
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Sean Burns |
Tomato |
George Washington (2000) |
"What a strange and beautiful film!" |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Gerry (2003) |
"...a marathon meditation on the puniness of man, humbled by the unblinking harshness of his surroundings. You get lost in the landscapes and can't find your way out." |
Sean Burns |
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Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) |
"On one hand you've got Tupac Shakur, Will Smith, Ice Cube, Mark Wahlberg, Ice-T, LL Cool J, Sean Combs and Andre Benjamin. On the other you've got 50 Cent. This kid stinks!
" |
Sean Burns |
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Ghost Rider (2007) |
"The movie quickly devolves into a tiresome F/X spectacle, but Cage approaches the material with a gonzo sincerity that's strangely magnificent." |
Sean Burns |
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Ghost Town (2008) |
"Is he having a laugh?" |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Ghost World (2001) |
"Zwigoff's neatest trick is that the film itself seems to deepen along with Enid's worldview." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
A Girl Cut in Two (2008) |
"Chabrol keeps such rigid formal control of the material that it feels more momentous than such a tawdry tale has any right to." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
The Girl Next Door (2004) |
"...for the most part bounces along just fine on a shrewd combination of sweetness and danger." |
Sean Burns |
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Godsend (2004) |
"Describing De Niro's performance in this film as 'lackadaisical' requires a supreme act of generosity. Calling it 'competent' might qualify as Christ-like." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Gone Baby Gone (2007) |
"It's official: Ben Affleck isn't embarrassing anymore." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Good German (2006) |
"...a visual treat for classic movie buffs. Every lovingly misprinted optical dissolve and abrupt cut to stock footage left me squealing with delight. But is the movie itself any good? Sadly, no." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
The Good Girl (2002) |
"...skirts the edges of snide condescension only to then abruptly catch the viewer off-guard with lightning strikes of genuine emotion." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005) |
"It's the kind of movie you admire, but can't quite force yourself to love. Good thing there's so much here to admire.
" |
Sean Burns |
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The Good Shepherd (2006) |
"The problem is that De Niro nails a particularly emotionless, chilly, paranoid tone -- and then stubbornly refuses to modulate it for damn near three hours." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
The Good Thief (2003) |
"...a shambling, dope-addled cousin to Ocean's Eleven, one in which everyone smokes a lot and hangs out with prostitutes." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
A Good Woman (2005) |
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the movies -- The Return Of Helen Hunt!" |
Sean Burns |
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A Good Year (2006) |
"A leaden attempt at an upbeat romp from the downcast, feel-bad tag team of actor Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott, the movie is like hearing a knock-knock joke told by a mortician." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Gosford Park (2001) |
"It's about time grumpy old genre-annihilator Robert Altman got around to blasting the British drawing-room saga." |
Sean Burns |
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The Gospel of John (2003) |
"Whatever this is, it sure isn't cinema. There's no adaptation, no reconfiguration of the material from one medium to another." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Goya's Ghosts (2007) |
"Nobody expects a Spanish Inquisition!" |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Gran Torino (2008) |
"Clumsy and crude, yet preposterously entertaining throughout -- the movie plays like catnip to longtime Clint Eastwood fans." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2007) |
"Lovely in its understatement, quietly but insistently demanding that Esma's story, and those of too many other women, finally be told." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Great Raid (2005) |
"Dullest. Cast. Ever. Everybody in this movie comes off like they're playing dress-up. Here's one that should've stayed in the vault." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Great World of Sound (2007) |
"Everybody's got a song to sing, and we'll all believe exactly what we want for just as long as we can." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) |
"...as doofy, mawkish and unsubtle as the title makes it sound.
" |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Grindhouse (2007) |
"A museum installation of crap culture artifacts that is both entirely too much and not nearly enough. The tiresome, self-referential Tarantino has become trapped in his own Jack Rabbit Slim's." |
Sean Burns |
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The Guardian (2006) |
"So old-school it actually has roles for both Clancy Brown and John Heard, The Guardian feels like an assembly-line summer programmer from somewhere circa 1987." |
Sean Burns |
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The Guys (2002) |
"...pays tribute to heroes the way Julia Roberts hands out awards--with phony humility barely camouflaging grotesque narcissism." |
Sean Burns |
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