Splat .5/4 |
G-Force (2009) |
"The worst Walt Disney Pictures release in a decade. To describe this chaotic, charmless, pop culture-centric product as completely and utterly excruciating is almost too kind a criticism." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"Viewers certainly won't be able to accuse G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra of lacking in sound and fervor, but that's just the problem. With nothing else to latch onto, the picture's ceaseless bombastic overload grows tedious rather than exciting." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Game Plan (2007) |
"An example of middle-of-the-road insignificance." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
Gamer (2009) |
"Stunningly impersonal and underdeveloped, Gamer consists of pawns posing as people going through the motions of directors Neveldine's and Taylor's ugly orgy of style over substance." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gangs of New York (2002) |
"Gangs of New York is flawed and has several slow patches, and that is the bad news. The good news is that, on every other account, it is a remarkably ambitious and deeply powerful masterwork." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 4/4 |
Garden State (2004) |
"Garden State is a beaming, unforgettable little masterpiece, creatively alive and emotionally intimate at the same time." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Garfield the Movie (2004) |
"Bankrupt of imagination and will be nearly forgotten the instant the viewer exits the theater, but it's harmless - the sole reason why it is difficult to out-and-out hate it." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) |
"The Garfield in these shoddy movies is nothing but an impostor of the once-beloved real thing." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The General's Daughter (1999) |
"Convoluted as some of the developments may be, the movie never loses its interest or atmosphere within the swampy, backwater Georgia town, and as summer popcorn-fare, it is unusually intelligent." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Generation Ax (1998) |
"Has a lot going for it, and is most certainly worth seeing for enthusiasts of Faircloth, horror movies, and high school-set stories." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Gentlemen Broncos (2009) |
"An uneven comedy that gets high scores for the amount of laughs it does provide. My assessment? Normal is overrated." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) |
"Never scary but frequently cartoonish in its sour humor, Diary of the Dead can't even figure out if it wants to be taken seriously or as a poor, unfunny spoof." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005) |
"Gritty, dark and unapologetically violent, Land of the Dead is a solid, serious zombie movie." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Georgia Rule (2007) |
"Even when the lack of forward motion in the narrative shines through, Georgia Rule is worth watching for Lindsay Lohan alone." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Get Carter (2000) |
"Little more than a shallow retread of many, many movies gone by." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Get Over It (2001) |
"A lighthearted, frothy entertainment that goes down with ease." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Get Smart (2008) |
"A spy comedy that isn't clever enough to get many chuckles and isn't over-the-top enough to work as prime lampoonery. It's dull, forgettable and uninspired." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
Ghost Rider (2007) |
"When Ghost Rider ended, infectious widespread laughter and comments of ridicule broke out in the theater. That is probably not the reaction director Mark Steven Johnson was aiming for, but it was well-warranted." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ghost Ship (2002) |
"Contains a spooky ambiance from start to almost-finish." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Ghost Town (2008) |
"Isn't bad by any means, but it is so low-key that it's rarely funny and difficult to get excited about." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ghost World (2001) |
"One of the best films of the year, a movie that takes a painstakingly realistic look at the difficulties of growing up...Thora Birch is a revelation." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) |
"Carves out a little place for itself as one of the few romantic comedies of 2009 that doesn't annoy or insult the viewer's intelligence." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Gift (2001) |
"That rarest of thrillers that actually thrills, and offers up a fair share of chills, too. It may not be groundbreakingly original, but it sure is an entertaining ride for the duration of its running time." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gigli (2003) |
"Why Gigli is getting so widely lambasted from other critics, I do not know. [It] may not be a life-changing motion picture, but it is always likable. Most of all, and most importantly, it has a good heart." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Girl Next Door (2004) |
"The best motion picture about teenage life since Donnie Darko...Has the power to become the defining teen picture for Generation Y." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Girl, Interrupted (1999) |
"What the picture lacks in freshness, it more than makes up for it in the outstanding performances across the board." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Girlfriend Experience (2009) |
"Sasha Grey's participation deserves to be but a footnote in the context of a compact, fascinating, meticulously constructed motion picture with far more to offer than one unfamiliar with director Steven Soderbergh might be expecting." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Girls Nite Out (1983) |
"For the devious bad guy's creative and unsettling garb alone, Girls Nite Out earns more points than it otherwise probably warrants." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Gladiator (2000) |
"Gladiator is a flawed motion picture, and one that, for all its flashiness, comes off as a mild disappointment. It is still a good film, but only marginally so, and easily could have been a great one." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Glass House (2001) |
"A thrilling suspenser that wisely puts the lovely Sobieski front-and-center, where she belongs." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Glitter (2001) |
"About as fresh as rancid Chinese food that has been stuck in the back of the refrigerator for several months." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Gloria (1998) |
"The film itself is simply lifeless, with only an occasional laugh popping up here and there so that it isn't completely unbearable to watch." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Glory Road (2006) |
"About as derivative and forgettable as this genre comes." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Go (1999) |
"The performances, direction, screenplay, and impressive technical aspects work together as a solid unit to make the exciting journey to nowhere a great deal of fun." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gods and Monsters (1998) |
"A heartfelt and intelligent motion picture." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Godsend (2004) |
"Opts to waste its potential in favor of a barrage of cheap jump scares and clumsy plotting." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Golden Compass (2007) |
"An auspicious and grandiose entertainment. Thoroughly immersive and genuinely wondrous." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gone Baby Gone (2007) |
"The provocatively-titled Gone Baby Gone peels itself one layer at a time, revealing unpredicted and mesmeric sides to a story that could never be guessed from the initial setup." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) |
"The underwhelming finale simply proved what I had increasingly been realizing throughout, which is that there was no reason for Gone in 60 Seconds to be made at all." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Good Boy! (2003) |
"Pales when placed next to all the similar movies it is shamelessly derivative of." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 0.5/4 |
The Good German (2006) |
"To say the movie is merely 'boring' doesn't seem fitting or epic enough of a word to describe what an excruciating endurance test its 108-minute running time is." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Good Girl (2002) |
"[Jennifer Aniston's] exquisitely modulated and heartbreakingly understated performance is a revelation...easily one of the year's very best motion pictures." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Good Luck Chuck (2007) |
"When a film has as much going for it as Good Luck Chuck did at the onset, and the magic is flying, it is positively heartbreaking to watch it all deteriorate by way of such glaring condescension." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005) |
"Isn't nearly as hard-hitting as it wants to be or as penetrating as it should." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
A Good Year (2006) |
"A Good Year is a bad movie." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
Goodbye, 20th Century (2000) |
"An ambitious film on many different levels, and I can appreciate that, but it rarely succeeds on any of them." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) |
"The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard could have been more agonizing to sit through. As is, it is merely a disposable failure. The film just wanders along, complacent and insincere as it heads down a dead-end street." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Gosford Park (2001) |
"For the usually great Robert Altman, this is a terribly disappointing directing effort." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Gossip (2000) |
"Has many intriguing elements that might have equaled up to more in a tighter screenplay, but it ultimately doesn't satisfy once the end credits have begun to roll." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Gothika (2003) |
"Gothika is a classy, dread-filled production populated with an above-average cast and plenty of namesake atmospherics...One of the stronger horror entries of the year." |
Dustin Putman |
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