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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"The only collateral damage is in the audience, where, as you sit through the movie, you can feel your IQ drop minute by minute." |
Richard Corliss |
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Gangs of New York (2002) |
"Scorsese's congested, conflicted, entrancing achievement." |
Richard Corliss |
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Gentleman's Agreement (1947) |
"Gentleman's Agreement is an important experiment, honestly approached and successfully brought off." |
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Get Smart (2008) |
"You cannot expect a bunch of vacationing kids to remember, let alone revere, a cheeky little TV half hour that entertained the old folks almost a half century ago." |
Richard Schickel |
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Ghostbusters (1984) |
"Whoever thought of having evil's final manifestation take the form of a 100-ft. marshmallow deserves the rational mind's eternal gratitude." |
Richard Schickel |
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Gigi (1958) |
"Gigi is dressed to kill, but if all the French finery impresses the customers, it also smothers the story." |
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Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) |
"You've never seen so many people talking and walking so slowly or registering their emotions so unblinkingly." |
Richard Schickel |
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Girl, Interrupted (1999) |
"Misses what was most engaging about Kaysen's memoir -- the unique sound of her voice, mostly drowned out here by too familiar attitudes and melodrama." |
Richard Schickel |
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Girlfight (2000) |
"It gives its fine actors room to breathe and behave -- and in Michelle Rodriguez's case, glow." |
Richard Schickel |
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Gladiator (2000) |
"Gladiator is quite a good movie." |
Richard Corliss |
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Glory (1989) |
"It is the movie's often awesome imagery and a bravely soaring choral score by James Horner that transfigure the reality, granting it the status of necessary myth." |
Richard Schickel |
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The Godfather Part II (1974) |
"Not once does Pacino overtly ask for the audience's sympathy, but through a disciplined, suggestive performance he dominates the film." |
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Going My Way (1944) |
"It offers, in the performance of nutcracker-faced, 56-year-old Barry Fitzgerald, the finest, funniest and most touching portrayal of old age that has yet reached the screen." |
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Goldeneye (1995) |
"Richard Kiel, you are missed." |
Richard Schickel |
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Goldfinger (1964) |
"In scene after scene Director Guy Hamilton has contrived some hilariously horrible sight gags." |
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Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) |
"In this film we learn that it takes 8,000 lbs. of pressure to crush a car but only one credited screenwriter (Scott Rosenberg) to pound out such a lame script." |
Richard Corliss |
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Gone With the Wind (1939) |
"The cinema event for which the U. S. has palpitated for three years." |
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Good (2008) |
"Morally speaking, everything about Good is tidily correct. But it is more a predictable parable than a full-fledged narrative." |
Richard Schickel |
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The Good German (2006) |
"The result is a movie that is never quite amusing but never quite mordantly thought provoking either." |
Richard Schickel |
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The Good Shepherd (2006) |
"Damon is terrific in the role--all-knowing, never overtly expressing a feeling." |
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A Good Year (2006) |
"Don't expect to be beguiled by A Good Year. That would be like trying to warm your hands at an artificial fireplace." |
Richard Corliss |
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) |
"All three arrive at the cache at the same time. Who gets it? Director Leone doesn't seem to care very much, and after 161 minutes of mayhem, audiences aren't likely to either." |
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Goodfellas (1990) |
"You walk away, tantalized by a view into the darkest part of yourself, glad that that part is still behind bars." |
Richard Corliss |
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Goya's Ghosts (2007) |
"It has grand scale and grand ambitions, and in the midst of our annual silly season at the movies I would like to suggest that, flawed as it is, the film does reward our serious attention." |
Richard Schickel |
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Grand Hotel (1932) |
"As it is, the hotel is well filled." |
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940) |
"The Grapes of Wrath is possibly the best picture ever made from a so-so book." |
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The Great Debaters (2007) |
"The film may be manipulative in its construction, and cliché-ridden in some of the incidents it recounts, but it has a good, large heart." |
Richard Schickel |
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The Great Ziegfeld (1936) |
"Pretentious, packed with hokum and as richly sentimental as an Irving Ber lin lyric, it is, as such, top-notch entertainment." |
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The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) |
"The movie's plot does not quite hold all this pageantry together, but De Mille's scripters and actors enter into the thing in the proper flamboyant spirit." |
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The Green Mile (1999) |
"To more than a few viewers, this one will feel like a life sentence." |
Richard Corliss |
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The Grifters (1990) |
"Best to savor The Grifters for its handsome design -- the picture looks as clean as a Hockney landscape -- and its juicy performances." |
Richard Corliss |
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Groundhog Day (1993) |
"[Murray] carries Groundhog Day with his uniquely frittery nonchalance and makes the movie a comic time warp anyone should be happy to get stuck in." |
Richard Corliss |
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Grumpy Old Men (1993) |
"Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon are awfully good at this sort of thing." |
Richard Schickel |
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