The Gingerbread Man (1998) Critic Reviews
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Branagh, chewing on a plummy Georgia accent, makes the divorced, boozing, and womanizing Magruder a smug yet touchingly vulnerable legal player.Read the full review
With unexpected success, Robert Altman plays a John Grisham mystery in a seductive new key.Read the full review
A fascinatingly strange and chaotic ballet set to familiar noir motifs.Read the full review
It's all atmospheric, quirky and entertaining: the kind of neo-noir in which old-fashioned characters have updated problems.Read the full review
There's great pleasure in watching a movie in which the director has thought out everything beforehand.Read the full review
The result is an entertaining and sporadically engrossing two hours.Read the full review
The trouble is that the picture is far from over when suddenly we find ourselves watching another movie -- a punishing, overly complex melodrama in which the Gingerbread Man receives his comeuppance.Read the full review
One of those movies that's great fun to watch, even if it decomposes more totally in your mind with each step out of the auditorium.Read the full review
There is a trumped-up quality to the action climaxes that is disappointingly perfunctory, and the story's final revelation is simultaneously far-fetched and unsurprising.Read the full review
All accusatory fingers should be pointed at director Robert Altman, who further drains his reputation surplus with this unoriginal and uninteresting piece of exploitation.Read the full review
