Tomato |
Galaxy Quest (1999) |
"Deliciously funny!" |
David Elliott |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
"Everyone is a cutout, attached to simple idea balloons, though Scorsese shows a ripe, splurging love of the milieu." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Gangster No. 1 (2002) |
"A prolonged extrusion of psychopathic pulp." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Garcon Stupide (2006) |
"Tall, boyish Loic (Pierre Chatagny) is too much a statue even to be called stupid." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Garden State (2004) |
"It's rare for a movie to have so many blooming surprises." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Georgia Rule (2007) |
"A bar of soap is a repeated element in Georgia Rule, and rightly so. Suds rise in this capably acted fem-drama laced with slap-in comedy." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Gerry (2003) |
"Gerry has the allure of a skinny but enticing film school project." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) |
"This is the sort of film that every adult synapse in your head knows is hipster poppycock, escapism to nothing." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) |
"Extraordinarily rich visually, with a density of detail that would have impressed Breughel or Veronese." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Ghost World (2001) |
"A wonderful, needle-sharp comedy of alienation." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) |
"The film is captivating." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
The Gift (2001) |
"Moderately engrossing but taxingly teased pulp." |
David Elliott |
Splat 0/4 |
Gigli (2003) |
"This is the Cinema of Attitude pampered beyond lousy teen comedy to some post-Tarantino end zone of stupified 'adulthood.'" |
David Elliott |
Splat |
The Girl (2001) |
"The film has almost no erotic or poetic temperature." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Girl from Paris (2002) |
"[Carion] has honestly involving characters, and does not shirk the necessarily rude side of agri-life." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The Girl Next Door (2004) |
"One of the tawdriest silly jokers of the year, or one of the few mainstream comedies to have a pinch of audacity. In fact it is both, mixed implausibly but somewhat entertainingly." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) |
"A devoutly painterly movie." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Girl, Interrupted (1999) |
"Sincerity of acting can cover (or expose) the holes in a movie, and when the sincerity comes with the big, button eyes and cute chopped hair of Winona Ryder, the basic tendency of an audience is to simply go with her, and so with the film." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Girls Will Be Girls (2003) |
"Crass and dumb." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Gladiator (2000) |
"Gladiator is a cheese-ball colossus." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
The Glass House (2001) |
"Requires that Terry, Erin and other villains act increasingly stupid, making dumb moves that would ruin them in church bingo." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Glitter (2001) |
"Carey has a wonderful gift; it's just not in acting." |
Jerry McCormick |
Splat 2/4 |
Gloomy Sunday (2003) |
"This is kitsch with paprika." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Glory Road (2006) |
"The basketball drama Glory Road is about as smoothly predictable as a well-aimed ball arching from a hand toward a net, but is, still, inspiring." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Go Further (2004) |
"This yeasty, yogic, sweetly yappy film could change your life, perhaps starting with the 'butter substitute' on your popcorn." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Goal! (2006) |
"A movie iconizing a sportsman for his improvisatory flair should not be so boxed in by pat devices." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
God Grew Tired of Us (2007) |
"Christopher Quinn and Tommy Walker made this fine and never simply pleading film, its moving subjects including tall, gentle, tireless, prayerful and humane John Bul Dau." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Gods and Generals (2003) |
"It's like an old history cyclorama 'brought to life' with a mixture of wax, starch and pulped hymnals." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1/4 |
Godsend (2004) |
"Godsend is one of the collapsing duds that should cause not only critics to despair -- not about bad movies, but that the makers believe any audience deserves this." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Godzilla 2000 (2000) |
"The absurd and often pretty violence of the film's long climax can leave you smiling, though this sort of pop regurgitation is getting old." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004) |
"The Vietnam scar is bleeding again." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The Golden Compass (2007) |
"There may be box-office gold from The Golden Compass, but panning for it while viewing is a real day at the mine." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) |
"These epic, macho cartoons bounce past reality, suspending gravity along with disbelief." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Good Boy! (2003) |
"This is no Babe, or Best in Show for the sub-12 set, but Liam Aiken is an appealingly talented kid actor, the photography is glossy, the body function jokes are tame, and messages about love, home and species bonding peg in neatly." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The Good Girl (2002) |
"Justine's smartness reeks of self-loathing and moral vacancy. Is feminism this comatose in Texas?" |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005) |
"In 2005 the moral lessons feel just like live news." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1/4 |
The Good Thief (2003) |
"A bad movie that careens and kazooms from one moment of flip, empty sophistication to another." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
A Good Year (2006) |
"Despite all the sunny, Provencale charms, the plot is a wisp of wee gags, peeps of flesh, mildly charming repartee." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Gosford Park (2001) |
"Often a rich pleasure to see, hear and think about." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Gossip (2000) |
"Gossip shifts, so awkwardly you can feel the gears grinding, into mystery/thriller." |
Arthur Salm |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Goya's Ghosts (2007) |
"What Forman doesn't give us is drama of sure coherence or credibility, but the trappings entrance." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gracie (2007) |
"This more homespun film doesn't let down its story or the Shue family. Its plain integrity outshines predictability. It is feminist without cant. And Schroeder delivers perhaps the finest young female performance of the year." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Grateful Dawg (2001) |
"While those seeking new insight into Garcia's troubled life will be disappointed, those seeking to celebrate an underexposed facet of his musical legacy should be delighted." |
George Varga |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Great Raid (2005) |
"This has modest blood yet almost documentary fidelity, is beautifully sited (Australia's Queensland was main location), and paced to deliver the nerve surges of fear and reward and loss." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) |
"The Greatest Game Ever Played strides gracefully across a well-tended but uncrowded field: the golf film." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
The Green Mile (1999) |
"A groaning ordeal." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Greenfingers (2001) |
"The movie gives some blooming satisfaction." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The Grey Zone (2002) |
"In this labor of angst, directed by actor Tim Blake Nelson from his play, standard acting and 'plot' become reductive brackets." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gridiron Gang (2006) |
"... the former footballer and pro wrestler Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is just the rock on which to securely build a football inspiration movie like Gridiron Gang." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Grindhouse (2007) |
"Robert Rodriguez bakes a load of stale if bloody pastry called Planet Terror, while Quentin Tarantino fries up a tasty mess of fun with Death Proof." |
David Elliott |
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