Splat 1.5/4 |
G (2002) |
"The women are shrewishly materialistic, the men are manipulative or violent and the Polo wardrobes look fabulous on everyone. It's an ugly affair overall, but at least you can say you've never seen such beautiful shirts." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/5 |
G-Force (2009) |
"If you know a 7-year-old who's still angry he wasn't allowed to see Transformers, G-Force is sure to make him feel better. But other than him, it's hard to say who this abrasive comedy is meant to charm." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 0.5/5 |
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"Sure, big dumb fun can be big dumb fun, but Sommers goes beyond the "more is more" modus operandi and launches into "too much is never enough" territory." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Gabrielle (2005) |
"Chereau keeps us locked inside their suffocatingly unhappy home, making for an intensely theatrical chamber piece." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Game 6 (2006) |
"An offbeat, not-quite-successful paranoid comedy." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Game Over - Kasparov and the Machine (2003) |
"Director Vikram Jayanti makes a nail-biter out of the historic 1997 match between the charismatic, mordantly funny Kasparov and the steamer trunks of circuitry." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/4 |
The Game Plan (2007) |
"Director Andy Fickman seem to have thrown everything into this artificial comedy, in the hopes that something might stick. Almost nothing does." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1/5 |
Gamer (2009) |
"There’s plenty of violence, but the movie’s already-passe fear of a Web-based world is standard-issue." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Garage Days (2003) |
"Amiable but oddly amateurish." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Garden (2009) |
"[Director] Hamilton captures the heart-wrenching devastation done in the name of profit, as citizens mourn. Incredibly effecting." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 3/4 |
Garden State (2004) |
"It offers something rare in the bond between Andrew and Sam. Their connection follows a believable arc from their first awkward encounter to a specific, believable intimacy, without which the movie's jokiness could have rung hollow." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 1/4 |
Garfield the Movie (2004) |
"Bland as old kitty chow and unappealing to the eye." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) |
"Connolly, bless him, throws himself heartily into the task of acting opposite a computer-generated cat given to bad puns and flatulence. Everyone else, however, looks mortified, and can you blame them?" |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Garmento (2003) |
"Maher's feature debut has amusing moments, but falls apart as quickly as a cheap knockoff." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1/5 |
Gentlemen Broncos (2009) |
"Hess wrote and directed "Dynamite," and here's proof we shouldn't have rewarded him. The hollow Broncos is even more cruelly disdainful, designed primarily to scorn the pathetic lives within." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) |
"It seems sacrilegious to dismiss a zombie movie by Romero, who's been blending horror and satire since 1968's Night of the Living Dead. But his latest approach feels uncomfortably behind the curve." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005) |
"Land is pure entertainment and superbly well done." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1/4 |
Georgia Rule (2007) |
"Misguided at best and repellent at worst." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) |
"A gangsta rapper without fire in the belly isn't terribly interesting, cinematically or musically." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/5 |
Get Smart (2008) |
"Although Carell is never less than likable, he's funnier in any random scene of The Office. Here's hoping some misguided team doesn't try to turn that series into a quick grab at box-office bucks 40 years from now." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Ghost Rider (2007) |
"Rarely in Hollywood have so many labored so hard with so much time and such financial resources to fill a movie screen with as vast an array of spiritual gibberish, literary poppycock and pure flummery as Mark Steven Johnson's Ghost Rider." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 4/5 |
Ghost Town (2008) |
"Leave it to the unfailingly brilliant Gervais to breathe new life into an expiring genre." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Ghostlight (2004) |
"Few performances are hardy enough both to blossom in the dark intimacy of live theater and bloom under the glaring eye of a movie camera. Ghostlight is not the exception." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ghosts of Cite Soleil (2007) |
"[An] indelible documentary, which dives into the brutal heart of a place most people would avoid at all cost." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1/5 |
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) |
"A cheerless rip-off of A Christmas Carol." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) |
"One of the rare Imax movies in which the 3-D effects are completely melded into the picture, rather than simply used as a gimmick." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato |
Gigante (2009) |
"A spin on all the recent films utilizing video and found footage, this comedy from Uruguay has more than a few sweet, well-observed moments." |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 1/5 |
Gigantic (2008) |
"Seriously? Indie directors are still making painfully twee, self-conscious romances all these years after Sundance birthed so many quirky cliches?" |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (2003) |
"Musician Syd Straw unintentionally strikes truth when she sardonically asks about the film, 'Is this more like a fluff piece?'" |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1/4 |
Gigli (2003) |
"There are so many bad moments in Gigli, it's a shame to single out only a few." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gilles' Wife (2006) |
"This is a lyrical art movie with admittedly limited commercial appeal, but worth seeing for cinematic explorers." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Girl from Monday (2006) |
"Pointlessly stilted and frustratingly obvious." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Girl Next Door (2004) |
"This funny, surprising gem joins the ranks of Risky Business and Say Anything." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Girl Play (2004) |
"With little plot and a stifling set, the movie needs stronger performances than its leads can offer." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) |
"Like stepping inside a Vermeer painting. The light, color and composition are eerily perfect." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat |
Girl, Interrupted (1999) |
"[Ryder] is often just a crumpled, listless figure on a bed, which, while true to the nature of depression, is not, cinematically speaking, the most arresting image." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/5 |
The Girlfriend Experience (2009) |
"Nowhere near as kinky or thinky as Soderbergh's sex, lies and videotape, Girlfriend pretends it has more on its mind than it really does." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 4/4 |
Girlhood (2003) |
"Garbus spent three years patiently mining for beauty in the ugliest of environments. The remarkable result stands as a challenge to anyone who would have seen only the worst and walked right by." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Girls Rock! (2008) |
"The directors take a compassionate approach that encourages their young subjects to open up in remarkable ways, making this a must-see both for girls and the grownups who love them." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Girls Will Be Girls (2003) |
"What starts out amusing eventually becomes something of a drag." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
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Glitter (2001) |
"Mariah Carey Presses Forward with Acting Career" |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Glory Road (2006) |
"Glory Road is a pure Hollywood fantasy. As movie fiction, however, I guess it is entertaining enough." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/4 |
Go For Zucker (2004) |
"Go for Zucker has done well in its native country as the first postwar German-Jewish comedy, but its humor often seems so childish and meanspirited that you wonder what director and co-writer Dani Levy really had in mind." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Go Further (2004) |
"A one-sided soapbox for Harrelson's eco-friendly prattle." |
Robert Dominguez |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Go-Getter (2008) |
Click here to see the review. |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Goal! (2006) |
"Danny Cannon's Goal! The Dream Begins is a sports movie for people who may not care about sports but can't resist a heart-tugging underdog story." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
God Grew Tired of Us (2007) |
"Narrated by Nicole Kidman, this poignant documentary tells only half the story of three Sudanese 'lost boys' who emigrate to America. Though it doesn't delve as deep as it should, this movie will still break your heart." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1/4 |
Godsend (2004) |
"Next to The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, this is the worst movie De Niro has ever been in." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Goebbels Experiment (2005) |
"Devoted family man, aspiring poet and petty whiner, the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels depicted in Lutz Hachmeister's unusual documentary presents a compelling study of the banality of evil." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Going Shopping (2006) |
"[Has] enough moments of insight to blunt charges of sexist stereotyping." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
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