Splat |
The Game of Their Lives (2005) |
"A sentimental, creaky, underwritten, overloaded picture that fails as character study, period film, sports movie and heart-stirrer." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
"There is greatness in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York: titanic acting, violent poetry, moviemaking on a grand scale, a real air of daring. And there is flab in it as well, and confusion." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Gangster No. 1 (2002) |
"Not as well-written as Sexy Beast, not as gloriously flippant as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat |
Garage Days (2003) |
"It's a handsome film, and made with verve, but too often the tone wobbles and far, far too many of its jokes hit with a splat." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato A- |
The Garden (2009) |
"Likely to grab your heart and incite your passions." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B |
The Garden of Allah (1936) |
"More a collection of character vignettes than a full-blown story, Garden Party nonetheless shows as much promise for its makers as it gives to its characters." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato |
Garden State (2004) |
"A charming, funny, melancholy ode to twentysomething angst." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat C+ |
Garfield the Movie (2004) |
"The movie is meringue-light, occasionally amusing, adequately animated and utterly forgettable." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato A- |
Genesis - Where Are We Coming From? (2005) |
"The team of five credited cinematographers, which includes the directors, uses slow motion, time-lapse and extreme close-ups to provide fresh perspective on familiar sights and jaw-dropping footage of things you've never seen." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat C+ |
Gentlemen Broncos (2009) |
"As the struggle toward something new and different overwhelms the film, it becomes less and less human, less and less funny and less and less worth the effort to meet it on its own terms." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) |
"Romero's zombie films are notable for their embedded social commentary. Diary is no exception." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato |
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005) |
"It's Romero doing what he does best: using zombies to create a lowbrow social parable." |
M.E. Russell |
Splat D |
Georgia Rule (2007) |
"Georgia Rule is a comedy-drama about three generations of women learning to love one another in a small town. It's also an icky soap opera about these women coming to terms with a revelation of sex abuse." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato |
Gerry (2003) |
"[Van Sant has] managed something abstract yet explicit, and he's at his most honorable and purest in the aesthetics of filmmaking." |
Kim Morgan |
Splat |
Get Carter (2000) |
"It's three years since Sylvester Stallone has sprinkled his brand of fairy dust on America's movie screens, and judging by Get Carter, time hasn't been on his side." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C |
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) |
"The result is a drudge and a bore." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C+ |
Get Smart (2008) |
"Is it catastrophic? No. But in a summer of pretty decent action movies, it's a paltry treat indeed." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) |
"A profoundly original and compelling film." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) |
"Anime fans, notorious lovers of high-tech eye candy that they are, will forgive the occasional tedium; the movie's simply too handsome to ignore." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato |
Ghost World (2001) |
"Splendid, darkly humorous." |
Barry Johnson |
Tomato B |
Ghosts of Cite Soleil (2007) |
"There's an immediacy to Ghosts of the Cite Soleil that's exceedingly rare for a documentary of any stripe." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C |
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) |
"Despite being foolish in most respects, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past keeps you on its wacky rom-com narrative train all the way to the end. But that's probably a testament to the power of Charles Dickens' storytelling more than anything else." |
Mike Russell |
Tomato |
The Gift (2001) |
"Raimi and Blanchett are a formidable tag team, and when they're rolling, The Gift can be bone-chillingly good." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (2003) |
"Engrossing, fun and oddly touching, Gigantic makes you wish the best for these guys." |
Kim Morgan |
Splat |
Gigli (2003) |
"As with Madonna's Swept Away you're left baffled by how the thing was ever made." |
Kim Morgan |
Splat |
The Girl (2001) |
"Directed by Sande Zeig, The Girl is trying to be stylish and cool, but she gets more laughs and eye-rolls than anything else." |
Kim Morgan |
Tomato B |
A Girl Cut in Two (2008) |
"While the movie's main concern -- skewering bourgeois hypocrisy -- is not particularly fresh or innovative, Chabrol's craft is so precise, his way with actors and the camera so sure-handed, even this ordinary story is often immensely enjoyable." |
Stan Hall |
Splat C |
The Girl from Monday (2006) |
"As satire, it doesn't add up -- but it's an admirable, if dull, experiment." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato |
The Girl Next Door (2004) |
"It's not without its problems, but it's character-driven, funny and, if not dark, then at least a pleasant shade of gray -- with tremendous performances by Hirsch and Olyphant." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato B+ |
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) |
"It offers a credible account of artistic inspiration inside of a blissfully peaceful and painfully lovely shell." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Girl, Interrupted (1999) |
"Acted to perfection." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Girlfight (2000) |
"Moody, explosive, wounded and fiery, [Rodriguez is] the real deal, and she makes Girlfight unique." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B |
The Girlfriend Experience (2009) |
"Stylish, inventive and cool, Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience is a Godardian inquiry into the ways in which sex and money function as transactional media at a time of diminishing economic prospects." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat b |
Girls Rock! (2008) |
"There is something, well, awesome about watching these vivid young women...get onstage after five days and ferociously sing earnest lyrics they wrote themselves." |
Mike Russell |
Tomato B |
Girls Will Be Girls (2003) |
"A relentlessly mean picture that will tickle those tired of sweet comedies whether in drag or plainclothes." |
Kim Morgan |
Tomato B+ |
The Gits (2008) |
"There's quite a bit of well-edited concert footage and heartfelt testimony. But the core of the film is in that crime story, which stands out for its emotional intensity and the rare sense it imparts of justice -- if not solace -- served." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Gladiator (2000) |
"Solid acting." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2008) |
"Things perk up when Hicks focuses on Glass' music and working methods, especially with the filmmakers (Woody Allen, Errol Morris and Martin Scorsese included) whose works he's scored." |
Stan Hall |
Tomato B |
Glastonbury (2007) |
"Combining images of 30 years of politics, music, self-expression and alternative living, it's a vibrant, if inevitably scattered, film that manages to tread the fine line between chronicling the festival and exploiting it." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B- |
Gloomy Sunday (2003) |
"It's old-fashioned, sometimes accomplished, syrupy and, at its intermittent best, absorbing." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B- |
Glory Road (2006) |
"Heart and verve in surfeit makes the film rise above its flaws often enough to win you over." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Go Further (2004) |
"It's hard not to get caught up in the energy of this little band." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato |
Go Tigers! (2001) |
"Traverses an enormous amount of material ably and paints some vivid portraits in complex colors." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B- |
Goal! (2006) |
"There's enough realism to keep a soccer buff like me happy, but the film is aimed at the young at heart, and I think they'll love it." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
God Grew Tired of Us (2007) |
"The film's subjects display impressive adaptability, as well as a desire not to forget those they've left behind. The emotional high point is a miraculous reunion between one of the 'Lost Boys' and the mother he'd had no contact with for 17 years." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato |
Godzilla 2000 (2000) |
"Despite its defects, however, the picture manages to be charming." |
Kim Morgan |
- |
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004) |
"The archival footage is a potent reminder that even if the country's mood today is divisive, the level of dissent pales before that of three decades ago." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato A- |
Gojira (1954) |
"For the first time in this country, the original Japanese version of the first Godzilla film has been released, and it's a revelation." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat B- |
Golden Door (2007) |
"Images on a movie screen can either show the truth literally or evoke it emotionally. The Golden Door, tries to do both, alternating visions of stark realism with poetically dreamlike material in an unsteady and, ultimately, unsatisfying blend." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
Gomorrah (2009) |
"Director Matteo Garrone has adapted Saviano's kaleidoscopic technique, loosely adapting the book for the screen, creating an episodic, sprawling and, finally, overwhelming portrait of ordinary lives engulfed by violence, hopelessness and evil." |
Shawn Levy |
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