The Green Mile Reviews
Top CriticMuch of the three-hour movie takes place in the prison, but the resonant characterization, expansive plotting, and judicious use of exterior locations and flashbacks turn the walls into windows.
Common Sense Media
Thoughtful, intelligent movie for older teens.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Movie Metropolis
...despite the clichés and stereotypes, the film's cast manages to lift it from the depths of the commonplace and make watching it enjoyable.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Film4
Though the film drifts off down some long blind alleys, when Darabont exercises discipline the result is highly effective.
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| Original Score: 4/5
eFilmCritic.com
Dotted with many fine moments, clotted with a few flabby ones.
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| Original Score: 4/5
EmanuelLevy.Com
Overextending its welcome, Frank Darabont's film is the most commercially popular adaptation of a Stephen King novella, but it's also a slow, often dull prison drama.
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| Original Score: C+
Combustible Celluloid
Although The Green Mile is a satisfying and affecting movie, it's not The Shawshank Redemption -- not by a long shot.
Film Threat
One of the best prison films ever made.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
Of all the movies based on King novels, The Green Mile ranks near the top -- but below Darabont's first, The Shawshank Redemption.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Hollywood.com
Darabont explores the range of human kindness and cruelty as he lovingly and patiently sculpts his large cast of characters against magnificent scenery.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Film Quips Online
Hanks and the other guards' acting is impeccable as would be expected, but Duncan and his fellow prisoners are also disturbingly real.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Cincinnati Enquirer
Its emotional rewards outshine its faults.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Montreal Film Journal
If this movie doesn't get a truckload of Oscar noms, something's rotten in the kingdom of Hollywood!
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Cinema em Cena
Quando a história chega ao fim e as luzes se acendem, você sente que, de certa forma, o filme permanecerá com você por muito tempo.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Boston Phoenix
Overlong and potholed, The Green Mile is still worth the journey.
Matinee Magazine
Duncan's beautiful performance is worth at least three hours of anyone's life.
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| Original Score: short
