Galaxy Quest (1999)

"The big ideas fall short too often."

Garden State (2004)

"The writer-director never stops telling us a tale that's true at its core."

The General's Daughter (1999)

"The General's Daughter is a blandly acted, dully written, gratuitously grisly, coincidence-filled potboiler that takes the obvious road whenever it has a choice."

Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)

"Most of the time, the movie plods along like a leg-weary heavyweight in the late rounds, keeping the rhythm of its star."

Ghost Town (2008)

"It's a smooth journey across familiar territory to a safe emotional harbor, always professional and occasionally delightful."

The Gift (2001)

"[Raimi] and Blanchett can't turn grits into polenta, but they try."

The Girl Next Door (2004)

"The Girl Next Door is to Risky Business what near-beer is to beer."

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

"You have the main difference between book and movie: One remains pointed and specific, the other broad and generalized."

Gods and Generals (2003)

"As dry as a high school history book, solemn as a funeral service, humorless as a Politburo meeting, bloated as a waterlogged corpse and unbalanced as a bout between a debutante and a sumo wrestler."

Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004)

"Any open-minded person would have to agree that questions about his valor get settled here."

The Golden Bowl (2001)

"Director James Ivory and writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, partners for four decades with producer Ismail Merchant, don't bring much fresh air into this claustrophobic story."

The Golden Compass (2007)

"Weitz took a wonderful story about the danger of severing a soul from its otherwise empty body and did that very thing to his source."

Gone Baby Gone (2007)

"Ben Affleck, whose taste in projects as an actor has been questionable at best, has directed his first film with a sensibility and intelligence that never let him down. Gone Baby Gone would be an accomplishment with anyone at the helm."

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)

"I was curious to see why we needed a two-hour documentary about the three-hit wonder who cast away his career halfway through life and coasted on celebrity status for 30 years. After seeing Gonzo, I'm still not convinced we do."

Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005)

"Straightforward and stirring but not preachy."

The Good Thief (2003)

"It's as French as a half-smoked Gauloise and, like a half-smoked Gauloise, it stinks."

Gosford Park (2001)

"Qualifies as a solid double, maybe a triple."

Gothika (2003)

"Logic is tossed out the window, chased down the road and abused so roundly that it never comes back."

The Great Debaters (2007)

"Washington and the young cast carry everything off with unwavering conviction."

The Green Mile (1999)

"Frank Darabont is the world's greatest director of movies taken from Stephen King prison books."

The Grudge (2004)

"Between our jumps of fright come lumps of time that take forever to pass."

Guess Who (2005)

"Director Kevin Rodney Sullivan and writers David Ronn, Jay Scherick and Peter Tolan seed the comedy with reminders that ebony and ivory won't be livin' in perfect harmony, especially if they let the outside world interfere with them."