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G.I. JANE

Release: Aug 97 - Review: 10 Sep 10

FEMper Fi.

Demi Moore tries to prove she's got a dick.
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GALAXY QUEST

Release: Dec 99 - Review: 30 May 06

No Dreck on this Trek.
GALAXY QUEST is everything that the SCARY MOVIE franchise is not - well-produced, well-written, well-acted - and funny.
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GALLIPOLI

Release: Aug 81 - Review: 4 Jul 07

Military Unintelligence.
GALLIPOLI is one of the great Australian films and one of the greatest anti-war films.
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GANGS OF NEW YORK

Release: Dec 02 - Review: 2 Dec 04

An Army Of One - Daniel Day-Lewis.
There are three reasons to watch Martin Scorcese's superlative GANGS OF NEW YORK:
Daniel. Day. Lewis.

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GARFIELD

Release: Jun 04 - Review: 29 Sep 05

Flat Cat.
This is not a "bad" movie - it is simply devoid of a soul.
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GASLAND

Release: Sep 10 - Review: 17 Dec 10

Despicable Them.

Like Big Pharm, like Big Oil, like Big Corp, in the indie exposé GASLAND, it is revealed that the American companies that drill for natural gas are as unequivocally criminal and truly as insidiously evil.

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THE GAUNTLET

Release: Dec 77 - Review: 20 Jun 09

Bullets over Fraud Way.

... a ludicrous, riotous, guilty pleasure, Eastwood at the helm as director and star, doing all those outlandish things only Eastwood can do in a Clint Eastwood Movie.
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GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS

Release: Aug 06 - Review: 17 Apr 07

Gene Simmons: Family Jew.
...demystifies the god status that Simmons has worked so hard to cultivate over his 35-year career. And who wants to see their god with his pants around his ankles?
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GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT

Release: Feb 48 - Review: 24 Aug 09

Not very gentlemanly...

Released just after the Holocaust, can any of us in 2009 apprehend how this anti-Semitism sermon would have felt like electrodes on the testes of society?

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GET HIM TO THE GREEK

Release: Jun 10 - Review: 6 Jul 10

Going Greek: it only hurts if you're sober.
Drugs, bitches, rock stars, alcohol poisoning - geez! GET HIM TO THE GREEK is like one of my regular Tuesdays.
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GET SMART

Release: Jun 08 - Review: 26 Dec 08

Get Dumb. And Dumber.
It is obvious the filmmakers don't "get" GET SMART. They missed it... by THAT much.
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GHOST RIDER

Release: Feb 07 - Review: 1 Aug 08

Queasy Rider.
Sloppy editing, directionless direction and idiotic writing make this the number one feel-retarded movie of the year.
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GHOST TOWN

Release: Sep 08 - Review: 7 Feb 09

Afterlife Strife.
...rending our deepest sociological fears from their moorings near our black selfish souls and exposing them painfully. Comedy is pain. Ricky Gervais will hurt you until you laugh.
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THE GHOST WRITER

Release: Mar 10 - Review: 3 Apr 11

Ghost in the Machine.
...edge-of-your-seat sophisticated political thriller with an eye towards an intelligent audience who can follow a plot that doesn't spell out Bad Guys by three-day growths and Middle Eastern glares.
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GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST

Release: May 09 - Review: 20 Nov 09

Ghost of Dickens Past turns in his grave.
...another in a long line of tiresome films where females prove conclusively they don't know WHAT they want.
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GIGLI

Release: Aug 03 - Review: 13 Dec 06

To tear or wear off the skin of; abrade; to condemn, decry, objurgate…
An insult to gangsters, Italians, homosexuals, Al Pacino, lesbians, actors, retards, and even David Hasselhoff.
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GLADIATOR

Release: May 00 - Review: 6 Mar 09

Unleashing Helle.

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a story so well-orchestrated and superbly told, there might well have been in Roman history a general who became a slave, a slave who became a gladiator, a gladiator who won an Oscar.

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THE GODFATHER

Release: Mar 1972 - Review: 13 May 06

The Godfather Of Them All.
It has been over three decades since its birth, yet THE GODFATHER reigns as the yardstick by which all other gangster movies are brutally scrutinized.
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GONE BABY GONE

Release: Oct 07 - Review: 7 Oct 08

View to a Hammock.
Ben Affleck makes gravy in his directorial debut, about a redneck daughter's kidnapping on the mean streets of Boston. And how his sleepwalking brother saves the day.
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GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Release: Dec 08 - Review: 23 Dec 10

Where the wave finally broke and rolled back...
Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005), the pill-popping, alcoholic, gun-toting, womanizing, self-proclaimed doctor of Gonzo Journalism.
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GOOD WILL HUNTING

Release: Jan 98 - Review: 23 Apr 11

Beautiful mind versus beautiful beard.
...a driving story of a disturbed young mathematical genius trying to find his niche in a world that unwittingly ostracizes him for his beautiful mind.
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THE GOODS: LIVE HARD, SELL HARD

Release: Aug 09 - Review: 10 Apr 10

Abused Cars.
Slick, smarmy and sweaty-balled, THE GOODS is the bastard child of USED CARS and GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS.
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GRAN TORINO

Release: Dec 08 - Review: 31 Dec 08

The Enforcer in the 'burbs.

It's not a Dirty Harry film... really, it isn't. But someone forgot to tell Clint Eastwood.
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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

Release: 1903 - Review: 8 Apr 11

The Ten -Minute Milestone.
Back when overacting was the ONLY acting, before D.W. Griffiths, before KING KONG, almost before electricity (literally - this film was so far back in the mists of time that Thomas Edison was an indirect executive producer...
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GREEN LANTERN

Release: Jun 11 - Review: 1 Jul 11

Attack of the 50-foot foreheads.
... could have opted to stay Earthbound, but instead do a wondrous galactic job outlining one of the more interesting superhero legends.
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GROSSE POINTE BLANK

Release: Apr 97 - Review: 10 May 11

Whackjob Whack Job.
When we attend our high school reunions, we'd all like to be able to say, "I'm a professional killer." And have the actual accumulated technical knowledge and combat experience to back it up. That's why this black comedy is so damn cool.
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GROWN UPS

Release: Jun 10 - Review: 30 Dec 10

Groan Ups.
Five friends reunite for the funeral of their school coach and spend the weekend trying to be funny; between the ad-libs and the unfunny script, nostalgia is a bitch.
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GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER

Release: Dec 67 - Review: 21 Sep 09

Still Racist After All These Years
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...meant to be a hammer against racism. Unfortunately, it only illustrates the filmmakers' racism without them even realizing it. In one line of dialog, the film put its foot in its big whitey mouth.
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