Splat 2/4 |
G (2002) |
"Fails both as an update of F. Scott Fitzgerald's dissection of American aspirations and class barriers and on its own boorish terms." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2/4 |
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"It was that odd mix of straight-faced earnestness and bananas action that made the cartoon so much fun, and that’s what the movie delivers on." |
Cammila Albertson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Gabrielle (2005) |
"Patrice Chereau's portrait of a marriage en crise is an excoriating look at the deep unhappiness that can fester within the most respectable-seeming of households." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 9/10 |
Galaxy Quest (1999) |
"You don't have to be a Trek weenie to have a good time at this spoof cum homage to fandom and the enduring appeal of cheesy TV, but it helps." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Game 6 (2006) |
"This tale about a successful playwright and a vitriolic theater critic begins on a strenuously schematic note ... and descends into a tangle of heavily symbolic nonsense." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 1/4 |
Game of Death (1978) |
"To cash in on footage from a film Lee did not finish before his death, producer Chow puts in a double and uses out-takes for this kung-fu mess." |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
Game Over - Kasparov and the Machine (2003) |
"Has the paranoid tone and narrative urgency of a conspiracy thriller." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Games of Love and Chance (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
Games People Play: New York (2004) |
"There's no denying the freak-show appeal and you don't see frontal nudity like this on TV, but otherwise it's all as contrived and artificial as Survivor." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gandhi (1982) |
"Despite an intelligent title performance by Ben Kingsley and impressive cinematography in the manner of David Lean, this huge, clunky biopic offers less than meets the eye." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Gang of Four (1988) |
"An intriguing, if somewhat overextended, melodrama that delves into Pirandellian questions of real versus theatrical life, and considers the nature of deception and fate." |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
"Epic, meticulously researched and ultimately disappointing, Martin Scorsese's bloody valentine to the birth of his beloved city is less than the sum of its parts." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/5 |
Gangster No. 1 (2002) |
"The movie's captivating details are all in the performances, from Foreman's barking-mad Taylor to Thewlis's smoothly sinister Freddie and Bettany/McDowell's hard-eyed gangster." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Ganja & Hess (1972) |
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Splat 2/5 |
Garage Days (2003) |
"A startling about-face for Australian director Alex Proyas, and an unwelcome one as well." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 0/4 |
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987) |
"A stunningly inept and totally reprehensible film." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Garcon Stupide (2006) |
"Raw, uncompromising and surprisingly explicit." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Garden of Allah (1936) |
"It's familiar stuff if you've sampled the vast body of work devoted to LA-dammerung." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004) |
"Chris is the putative author of the film's images, but they're overlaid with Claudine's relentlessly overwhelming voice-over, which alternates between a crisp, knowing lecture about Bosch and more personal musings." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/5 |
Garden State (2004) |
"It's just the kind of story a young writer hoping to reflect the confusion of his entire generation would come up with, but a number of Braff's scenes are surprisingly well written and equally well acted." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gardens of Stone (1987) |
"Unjustly underrated upon its release, Gardens of Stone is a quiet, respectful film filled with emotional power, exceptional acting (especially by Caan), and technical virtuosity." |
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Splat 2/5 |
Garfield the Movie (2004) |
"The CGI is well-done, but Garfield's presence among the otherwise live cast is a constant distraction." |
Angel Cohn |
Splat 1/4 |
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) |
"A crass, tedious sequel." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/5 |
Garmento (2003) |
"Without an assured character at its center, the movie quickly collapses in a heap of moldy clichés and contrived (and not especially funny) situations." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/5 |
Gas Food Lodging (1992) |
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Tomato 5/5 |
Gaslight (1940) |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
Gasoline (2001) |
"Impressively stylish but curiously empty." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gate of Hell (1953) |
"It's a visually rich movie, but in retrospect rather slight in the canon of Japanese filmmaking." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
The Gatekeeper (2002) |
"While his instincts as a director could use some sharpening, Frey's performance and script, brought to life by a solid supporting cast, are both uncommonly smart." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gattaca (1997) |
"This stately, stunningly beautiful picture evokes a future in which present-day prejudices and neuroses have been taken to new, insidious scientifically rationalized heights." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/5 |
Gaudi Afternoon (2001) |
"The offbeat cast and gorgeous Barcelona locations can't quite make up for the thinness of the mystery and forced quirkiness of the characters and their tangled relationships." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gay Sex in the 70's (2005) |
"All the interviewees are terrific, battle-hardened storytellers whose experiences have made them wise and very funny." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Gaza Strip (2003) |
"Longley has constructed a remarkably coherent, horrifically vivid snapshot of those turbulent days." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 5/5 |
The General (1927) |
"The General is inarguably Keaton's most stirring movie, if not his greatest." |
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Splat 7/10 |
The General's Daughter (1999) |
"Director Simon West seems to confuse visual stylishness with emotional resonance, moody lighting with genuinely malevolent atmosphere, and sanctimonious lip service with genuine concern." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Genevieve (1953) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 4/4 |
A Gentle Woman (1969) |
"A hauntingly simple film." |
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Tomato 4/4 |
Gentleman's Agreement (1947) |
"[It] remains a classic crusading film." |
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Tomato 4/4 |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) |
"Garish good fun." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) |
"A polarizing meditation on life and death in the infinitely mediated world of blogs, file sharing and incessant virtual connection." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005) |
"Nearly two decades after George Romero's sadly truncated Day of the Dead (1986) apparently concluded his apocalyptic zombie series, this grim, gory fable proved that there was still life in the dead." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/4 |
George of the Jungle (1997) |
"Amiable but toothless..." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
George Washington (2000) |
"Stylized to the point of poetry, David Gordon Green's impressive debut fuses the lyricism of Terence Malick with Harmony Korine's willingness to poke around the garbage-strewn landscape of the American underclass." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/5 |
Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye (2004) |
"Less an adaptation of Bataille's first novel, The Story of the Eye, than an exploration of its thematic underpinnings, the intersection of eroticism, power and baroque perversity." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Georgia Rule (2007) |
"Spin it however they like, the troubled but talented Lohan isn't what's wrong with this misbegotten mess." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/4 |
Germany in Autumn (1977) |
"A compelling and historically significant addition to German cinema, but those unfamiliar with that country's political situation may find it difficult to relate to." |
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Splat 2/5 |
Gerry (2003) |
"Inscrutable and irritating." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Gertrud (1964) |
"What presents the most difficulty is its talkiness (prompting one critic to call it a 'two-hour study of sofas and pianos'), but it is in Dreyer's simple, noncinematic technique one realizes the purity of his vision." |
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Splat 6/10 |
Get Carter (2000) |
"This gloomy revenge thriller is a sadistic cartoon ... whose phony moral soft center ... really is the last straw." |
Maitland McDonagh |
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