The Green Mile Critic Reviews

As Darabont directs it, it tells a story with beginning, middle, end, vivid characters, humor, outrage and emotional release. Dickensian.Read the 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 the full review

Well acted by an ensemble that leans toward equality for all, Mile carries its long running time extremely well.Read the full review

Excessive, but I, like Mr. Jingles, can't resist the Christmas-season cheese.Read the full review

An intermittently powerful and meticulously crafted drama that falls short of its full potential due to considerable over-length and some shopworn, simplistic notions at its center.Read the full review

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

Superficially respectful but ultimately cruel.Read the full review