Tomato 3/4 |
Gabrielle (2005) |
"Chereau matches Conrad's insistence on psychological accuracy, burrowing through the protective layers of self-delusion that hold so many human relationships together." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
The Game of Their Lives (2005) |
"...this soccer tale is about as exciting to watch as a scoreless match between opponents so defense-minded the ball never gets beyond midfield." |
David Germain |
Splat |
Game Over - Kasparov and the Machine (2003) |
"It piques our interest in a subject we knew little about and never thought we'd care to see on a screen, then wastes our newfound curiosity through a lack of material and directorial diligence." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
"Day-Lewis keeps you awake whenever the story loses steam during the film's 2 hours and 48 minutes." |
Steven Rosen |
- |
Garage Days (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Garden State (2004) |
"Achingly alive, beautifully written first feature." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1/4 |
Garfield the Movie (2004) |
"Equally insulting to both the homespun adult fans of the comic strip and the oblivious children for whom tired gags are served up like leftover lasagna." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Georgia Rule (2007) |
"There's little gussied up in this surprisingly tart mother-child-grandchild reunion picture, written by Mark Andrus." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 4/4 |
Gerry (2003) |
"An innovative and unusually artistic experiment." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Get Smart (2008) |
"By movie's end, we can imagine spending some more time with Agents 86 and 99, and liking it." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) |
"Ghost Dog can be as now as the latest hit rap disc, with its hip-hop-culture references and remarkably chilly and affecting score by The RZA of Wu-Tang Clan." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato |
Ghost Town (2008) |
"It's not just that Gervais isn't your typical leading guy. He's not, and bravo. It's more that Koepp and Gervais hold tight to Bertram's unpleasantness and human clumsiness after most other films would have winked at their intentions." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (2003) |
"The flabby, fawning film Gigantic comes across as 102 minutes of rib-nudging by one of the duo's annoyingly self-satisfied connoisseurs." |
Michael Booth |
- |
Gigantics (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 1.5/4 |
Gigli (2003) |
"Gigli makes a bid for that rare honor: The movie so bad it's good. It falls short." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Girl from Paris (2002) |
"May linger in the mind as a postcard collection of alluring mountain scenery, but there's not much in the way of lingering alpenglow at movie's end." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Girl from Paris (2002) |
"There's no growth in Adrien's character to keep us interested." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Girl Next Door (2004) |
"Cuthbert provides a great deal of heart to this alternately lewd and chaste lark." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) |
"To earn its props, a period film must resonate in our time. A movie about art doubles that demand. Webber has delivered the goods and then some." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
Girl, Interrupted (1999) |
"If only the story of Susanna's evolution didn't keep getting interrupted by everything else." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2/4 |
The Girlfriend Experience (2009) |
"Like its protagonist, the film is pretty to look at, but emotionally chilly; conceptually rich, but narratively unfulfilling." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Girls Rock! (2008) |
"There's so much joy and coming-of-age angst turned into nuggets of gold that it seems uncharitable to ask, what might be missing (more onscreen appreciation for rock's goddesses and gods, perhaps.)" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Gitmo: The New Rules of War (2006) |
"Resembles a collage more than a iron-clad essay, and its strength comes in set-pieces." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Gladiator (2000) |
"This film is the first 'sword-and-sandal' epic since the mid-1960s." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Glory Road (2006) |
"While Bruckheimer and Co. stretch the gospel theme too far and leave no emotional waypoint unmarked, Glory Road largely works." |
Michael Booth |
- |
Go Further (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Goal! (2006) |
"For all its familiar ticks -- of which there are many -- Goal! works some underdog magic in taking aspiring footballer Santiago Munez from Mexico to Los Angeles and then across the big pond to Newcastle, England." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Godsend (2004) |
"Godsend certainly leaves future filmmakers room to improve the next copy." |
Michael Booth |
Splat |
Going Shopping (2006) |
"Alleges support of women, yet fetishizes their objects instead of their relationships." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gojira (1954) |
"The rampaging reptile is back to remind us that monsters have meaning." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
The Golden Bowl (2001) |
"Ivory has been away from period literary adaptations, backbone of the Merchant Ivory reputation, for some time. It's good to have him back, but Golden Bowl shows he needs to do some work to reacquire his golden touch." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Golden Compass (2007) |
"Why is it so joyless?" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Gomorrah (2009) |
"The film's multiple strands might reflect a trend in multiple story lines. And it works to persuasively argue just how pervasive the corruption is in this community." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Gone Baby Gone (2007) |
"Affleck's directorial debut [is] a deft look at deep themes." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) |
"An especially bad screenplay." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Good Bye, Lenin! (2004) |
"Watching Becker invent new challenges and new solutions in scene after scene makes Good Bye, Lenin! a joyous show, blurred by tears of sympathy." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
The Good German (2006) |
"We get no heroes, not even flawed ones. Clooney, our marquee man, chases through numbing plot contortions only because of his lust for Lena. By the time The Good German ended, I had barely a clue if the good ones had lived or died." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Good Hair (2010) |
"Full of sweetly sardonic observations, the docu-comedy is one of the funniest movies of the year." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005) |
"Clooney makes an elegant argument that something of vital interest is still at stake in this story. It would take a stubborn soul to disagree." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Good Shepherd (2006) |
"Robert De Niro sat at the feet of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, and learned his lessons well." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Good Thief (2003) |
"Jordan's approach assumes a certain intelligence, and attentiveness, in his audience, but his joyride through the French Riviera always keeps us belted in." |
Vic Vogler |
Splat 2/4 |
A Good Year (2006) |
"Full of pretentious grape-droppings on how wine is like life, only tastier and with a bolder finish, A Good Year is at best elusive to the palate. At worst, it's a bad pressing of a vintage that has no reisling to exist." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato |
Gosford Park (2001) |
"This is an exemplary exercise in Anglophilia." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2/4 |
Gothika (2003) |
"Stumbles in so many spots that it's even difficult to champion a claim for Berry being the best thing about it." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Gracie (2007) |
"A truly winning American soccer movie has yet to be made, but Gracie is good enough to play for a tie." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gran Torino (2008) |
"Gran Torino is very much about the thing Eastwood knows most intimately -- movies. Like Unforgiven, his neo-Western classic, this film ponders the value of the yarns we spin about heroes and lawless encounters." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Grateful Dawg (2001) |
"Though Grateful Dawg isn't a great documentary, it holds plenty of enjoyment for acoustic-music fans." |
G. Brown |
- |
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato |
Grease (1978) |
"Grease holds up for new generations because it captures the enthusiasm of youth and the vibrancy of California's sunshine-and-cars culture." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Great Buck Howard (2009) |
"Just as in Burn After Reading, the craftsman's pursuit of character, warts and vulnerability intact, is adamant. He makes it hard to pass up this Buck." |
Lisa Kennedy |
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