The Green Mile

Above all a cracking good yarn that earns its laughter, its wonder and its tears.Read Full Review »

As Darabont directs it, it tells a story with beginning, middle, end, vivid characters, humor, outrage and emotional release. Dickensian.Read Full Review »

Well acted by an ensemble that leans toward equality for all, Mile carries its long running time extremely well.Read Full Review »

There's almost too much there, but the three-hour-plus film permits the kind of detailing that not only brings the storytelling to life, but sometimes persuades us we're breathing to its rhythms.Read Full Review »

Excessive, but I, like Mr. Jingles, can't resist the Christmas-season cheese.Read Full Review »

A film with a counterproductive tendency to take its time...but unassumingly strong, moving performances and Darabont's durable storytelling make it a trip worth taking just the same.Read Full Review »

From its deceptively easygoing beginning to the heart-wrenching finale, The Green Mile keeps you wonderfully high above the cynical ground.Read Full Review »

Surely a life sentence goes by quicker.Read Full Review »

But just watch Hanks, with the effortless grace of a Jimmy Stewart, turn the loony into something sweetly logical. Now that is magic.Read Full Review »

At the core, though, one finds a slacky, sappy film. The human mystery that breathed so easily in "Shawshank" is often forced here.Read Full Review »