Tomato B+
Get Smart (2008)
"Steve Carell is square-jawed-deadpan perfect as the title character."
Donald Munro
Tomato B
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
"An oblique and softly realized film that sneaks up on you with bleak inevitability and luminous awakenings."
Splat C+
Godsend (2004)
"A bargain-basement Sixth Sense that got fussy when it realized it couldn't deliver a clear, cold dose of terror."
Splat B-
The Golden Compass (2007)
"If you haven't read the books, it can be like wandering into a stuffy church service in a cathedral for the first time."
Splat
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
"Most of the film idles like a Chevy Nova that hasn't been tuned up since the Bush administration."
Tomato A
Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005)
"Clooney drains the story of most of the stirring sentimentality and rousing rightness that could have bogged it down."
The Good Shepherd (2006)
"Stays with you long after a standard-issue espionage flick has dissipated in a hail of bullets."
Tomato
Gosford Park (2001)
"The joys of the film are legion."
Splat D
Gothika (2003)
"Penelope Cruz whispers her explicit confessions with the droning delivery of a phone-sex worker on her third hour of overtime. "
Gran Torino (2008)
"Swirls with a textured and tangled complexity that results in a series of intimate, emotional and jaw-dropping moments in cinema."
Splat C
The Great Debaters (2007)
"It's yet one more of those average biographically based films that comes across as glossy, feel-good moviemaking rather than capturing the texture and fabric of a slice of history."
Guess Who (2005)
"The film is content to poke gentle fun, not try to blaze any trails, unlike its much more illustrious predecessor."
Gunner Palace (2005)
"You get a glimpse of what a tour of duty in Baghdad is really like."
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