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Positive Reviews
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Negative reviews
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Average Rating
3.8
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4.5
As such, its dotted with many fine moments, clotted with a few flabby ones.
Rob's Movie Vault
4.0
This is a thoughtful, intelligent movie with outstanding direction.
Common Sense Media
1.5
The supernatural elements carry an undeniable emotional charge, but the solution to the underlying murder mystery is disappointingly tidy and trite.
Time Out
4.5
The math doesnt quite work out, he admits at one point, and we find out why.
Rogerebert
2.0
What a crock!.I am guessing that this film was supposed to be some three hour exercise in spirituality, but unfortunately for me, it was neither spiri ..
JoBlo
4.5
Stalwart fans of Stephen Kings The Shawshank Redemption (1994) will be eager to see this screen adaptation of the same authors bestselling 1996 serial ..
Spirituality And Practice
2.5
Some viewers might be taken in by the benign mood of the story, still others could be enthralled by seeing how the electric chair works, while others ..
Sover
3.5
But before the movie lost me, it had me for a good long time.Overall The Green Mile is worth a look.
Combust Ible Celluloid
5.0
In this epic drama, which suffuses dark themes with humor and a grand spiritual agenda, the head guard at a southern prison in 1935 comes to doubt the ..
Chicago Reader
4.0
Is it so hard to write a story about a man who is wrongfully executed without dragging the supernatural into the story
Lariat
4.0
A good looking movie that features a magical mouse named Mr. Jingles and some pretty nasty execution scenes.
News Review
5.0
Featuring an intriguing, moving and even funny, multilayered script from King and Darabont, tremendous performances from Hanks and the rest of the gre ..
Screen It
2.5
Giving much life to these fairly undimensional characters is a strong cast, with Hanks turning in another empathetic lead performance.
Film Journal
1.5
by With a box office gross of 136.8 million, The Green Mile, Frank Darabonts conventional prison drama, is the most popular Stephen King screen adapta ..
Emanuellevy
4.4
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
3.5
In its own old fashioned way, Darabonts style of picture making is well matched to King size yarn spinning.
Ew
4.0
Over the epic running time the film inches its way through a complex soap opera of events on the Row, punctuated by three pivotal and grisly execution ..
Empire
1.5
Darabont has an artful ability to use production values to make a film appear as though it were actually transporting you somewhere. But when the cred ..
Sf Gate
2.5
Some people like this kind of oversize, dazzle and flash filmmaking, and for those who do Darabont is the perfect practitioner.
Sf Gate
2.0
Does this film really have to be three hours and nine minutes long
Bbc
5.0
Odd how a style that looked spare in one movie can feel bloated in the next.
Time
4.4
But while a good film, Cider is far from the great one Miramax and director Lasse Hallstrom were hoping it would be, marred by an unconvincing romanti ..
Mr Brown Movies
3.8
Instead of being merely downbeat, the conclusion is inappropriately depressing and uncalled for, and left me feeling more revolted than emotionally sa ..
The Movie Boy
4.5
The Green Mile is a solidly crafted film telling a complexly layered story that features a beautifully satisfying, if bittersweet, finale.
Reeling Reviews
4.5
The Green Mile (review) Crime and Punishment With The Green Mile, Stephen Kings serialized novel, I was like those people who waited on the docks in N ..
Flickfilosopher
3.8
Unsentimental, non glamorized, and unclouded by the usual overlay of rose colored nostalgia, this is a raw but rewarding motion picture.
ReelViews
4.5
The simple fable cant stand such scrutiny. More pivotally, the weight given to each moment lends The Green Mile a ponderousness that works against the ..
Hollywood Reporter
3.8
Just like up in heaven!), and an all too convenient solution to the fact that the movies moral center is about to be executed.
Spliced Wire
4.0
But it also touches on fantasy, dark humor, racial drama and spirituality.
Deseret News
4.5
But its length is not what we are assessing: is it worth your time
Urban Cine File
4.4
If this movie doesnt get a truckload of Oscar noms, somethings rotten in the kingdom of Hollywood!
Montreal Film Journal
1.5
Though Edgecomb is convinced of Coffeys innocence and even knows who the real killer is he makes no effort to stop the execution.
News Week
4.5
The film isnt a quickly paced action film so over three hours is a lot to watch at home.
Solzy At The Movies
4.5
Not merely a traditional black hatted villain, Hutchisons Percy is truly a sad and conflicted individual.
Film Quips Online
2.5
Those whose lives Coffey touches may find relief from physical ailments, but they seem no freer, more hopeful, or nobler for the experience.
Decent Films
4.5
...despite the clichs and stereotypes, the films cast manages to lift it from the depths of the commonplace and make watching it enjoyable.
Movie Metropolis
4.5
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Rochester Goes Out
1.5
Despite star billing for Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan, this absorbing World War II drama operates like an ensemble piece, with the two performers enjo ..
Film Frenzy
1.2
What makes the film nearly impossible to endure, then, is not any incompetence of filmmaking but a story that increasingly runs afoul of basic ideolog ..
Nicks Flick Picks
5.0
This movie is being described as inspiring To me it just seems morbid, melancholy, sad, and far too long.
Looking Closer
4.5
Three long hours of wind, an exercise in titanic self importance intent on passing off klunky rhetoric as poignant drama.
Globe and Mail
3.2
But this is a good thing only if the content justifies the extra length.
About Film
4.5
It certainly doesnt help that Duncan, taken from us too soon, plays the role to perfection.
Elements of Madness
1.5
Unfortunately this is one of those classics that didnt work for me.
rachelsreviews.net
4.5
Of all the movies based on King novels, The Green Mile ranks near the top but below Darabonts first, The Shawshank Redemption.
Courier-Journal (Louisvill ..
4.5
This is hardly a film that dismisses race, though it doesnt treat race as the leading text either.
Deep Focus Review
4.5
This is true, but its hard to fault Darabont for the overextended final hour.
Film Vault
4.5
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