Splat 2/4 |
G-Force (2009) |
"Guided by the principle that action movies have become generic that anybody can be plugged into the hero role and the results would be no different than if Arnold Schwarzenegger or Bruce Willis was the star." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"Audiences know the signs of a lame August release -- and, as the Joes say, knowing is half the battle." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Game of Their Lives (2005) |
"Too many references to the inevitable popularity of soccer in America make [the film] less about the players' lives and more about selling soccer as a spectator sport." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
"The story... ranges so widely that it sometimes gets away from Scorsese and his tag-team of strong screenwriters." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Garden State (2004) |
"Braff balances the comic with the tragic so perfectly that we may laugh and cry, freely and without feeling manipulated, during a single scene." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1/4 |
Garfield the Movie (2004) |
"Bill Murray should have remembered his dire warning, in Ghostbusters, about 'cats and dogs living together.'" |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
Gay Sex in the 70's (2005) |
"The only clear message is of aging men enjoying a nostalgia trip... and thumbing their noses at the younger gay men who missed the party." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gentlemen Broncos (2009) |
"The deliberately low-rent cheesiness of the special effects, as well as the childish grossness of the humor, give "Gentlemen Broncos" a distinctive and original flavor." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005) |
"A treat for people who like their horror movies brooding, bloody and laced with dark humor." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Gerry (2003) |
"Gerry is a fascinating idea for a movie -- can you make a movie so boring that it transcends boredom? -- but not a fascinating movie." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) |
"I can't say whether 50 Cent can act, because it's not required of him. He has plenty of charisma, and is a natural force in this environment." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Get Smart (2008) |
"Carell draws laughs because he stays true to the character. He is self-deprecating as he throws himself into every gag." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1/5 |
The Getaway (1994) |
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Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) |
"The Blade Runner-esque worldscape is gorgeously realized, but the script's philosophical ramblings about existence are real head-scratchers." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Ghost Rider (2007) |
"The movie crashes and burns, in a perfect arc from so-bad-it's-good to so-bad-it's-still-bad." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1/4 |
Ghost Ship (2002) |
"The script ... is so sketchy that you can predict which characters will survive by whether they have been given first names." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ghost Town (2008) |
"Gervais' double-talking turn as Bertram, a morose Noel Coward figure in the body of Lou Costello, is consistenly hilarious and ultimately heart-warming." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ghosts of Cite Soleil (2007) |
"Leth ... gets us so close to life in Cité Soleil that we practically can hear the bullets and smell the garbage." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) |
"Director Mark Waters finds the movie's laughs in the supporting players: Michael Douglas, Emma Stone and Lacey Chabert." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003) |
"Cameron's self-importance turns Ghosts of the Abyss into an interesting ride with a tour guide you wish would sit down and shut up." |
Sean Means |
Splat 0/4 |
Gigli (2003) |
"I doubt even [Jen and Ben], popping in the DVD as if it were a home movie, would be able to detect any onscreen chemistry." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Girl from Paris (2002) |
"Seigner and Serrault give sweet, satisfying performances.
" |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
The Girl Next Door (2004) |
"Greenfield... is downright brazen in pinching the plot of Risky Business and dumbing down a sophisticated adolescent fantasy into a crude adolescent fantasy." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) |
"Webber's listless direction is as flat as a museum wall." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Girlhood (2003) |
"Girlhood begins as a document of criminal justice, and ends as a testament to the power of motherhood.
" |
Sean Means |
Splat |
The Glass House (2001) |
"Like a jigsaw puzzle nobody bothered to put together." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Glory Road (2006) |
"Glory Road becomes that rare sports movie that realizes that buzzer-beating shots aren't the only dramatic moments in a game." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
God Grew Tired of Us (2007) |
"[A] simple and direct documentary." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Godsend (2004) |
"Director Nick Hamm settles for substandard horror shocks and endless shots of Bright doing his best "I see dead people" look." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004) |
"Those who dismiss Going Upriver as a movie-length campaign commercial will miss out on a compelling and dramatic story of a young man's trial by fire.
" |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
The Golden Compass (2007) |
"There's just too much information crammed into two hours, and Weitz directs it all as if he's waist-deep in quicksand and grandiose special effects." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
Golden Door (2007) |
"[Crialese's] gorgeous, evocative images... are housed, like a great exhibit in a museum with overly long hallways, in a sluggishly paced narrative." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Gomorrah (2009) |
"Moving his camera like a documentarian, Garrone creates a grab-your-throat sense of immediacy." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Gone Baby Gone (2007) |
"[Ben Affleck] steeps the movie in the neighborhoods of the city - the bars and alleyways, where attitudes have been hardened by life on the low end of the economic ladder." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Good Boy! (2003) |
"Broderick's misplaced voice-over is just one miscalculation of many, amid the lame special effects, poorly sketched parents and forcing the great Carl Reiner to give voice to an old sheepdog's comments about flatulence." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005) |
"The triumph of this spare and elegant drama is that it feels like an instant classic, displaying old-school filmmaking flair as timeless as the story is timely." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Good Shepherd (2006) |
"The psychological profile of Wilson ... is muted and torturously paced, though Damon's frosty Bourne Identity demeanor is perfect for the job." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Good Thief (2003) |
"Nolte's performance is one of his best, and a perfect fit for the movie's bittersweet mix of youthful peril and an old man's regrets." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) |
"Like Don's sales technique, the movie ... pushes its humor aggressively but closes the deal." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gracie (2007) |
"Every triumph-over-tragedy cliche is firmly in place, but the movie still feels authentic." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2007) |
"Zbanic telegraphs parts of the drama a little too easily, but she draws heartbreaking performances from Karanovic and Mijovic." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
The Great Buck Howard (2009) |
"Malkovich's performance is too awkwardly manic, and Hanks' is too sleepy - paving the way for Emily Blunt to steal the movie." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Great Debaters (2007) |
"These students, the movie tells us, went on to become major figures in the civil-rights movement - and seeing how they got there is an illuminating lesson." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Great New Wonderful (2006) |
"[The characters], like us, are looking for answers in a rare movie that boldly and thoughtfully asks the right questions." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
The Great Raid (2005) |
"Miramax let this World War II drama ... sit on the shelf for two years. Now it sits on the screen for more than two hours, lumpen and uninvolving." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) |
"The warm and unabashedly sentimental tone overcomes the audience's defenses, mostly because LaBeouf is so down-to-earth and appealing." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Gridiron Gang (2006) |
"Jeff Maguire's script turns out to be simultaneously riddled with clichés and (as the documentary footage over the closing credits shows) generally faithful to events." |
Sean Means |
Splat 0/4 |
Grind (2003) |
"'Skateboarding is not a crime' ... but the movie is -- a tasteless, plotless, brainless, humorless, charmless and endless crime against cinema." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Grindhouse (2007) |
"The combination of films in Grindhouse proves to be true to the grungy grind-house tradition: Some cool stuff, some icky stuff, and lots of so-so filler." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 4/4 |
Grizzly Man (2005) |
"Herzog finds a real-life figure to rival the outsized characters of his greatest films, Aguirre: The Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo." |
Sean Means |
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