As charming and endearing as it is tragic, Green started out of the gate with a masterpiece of a film that defies expectations of what defines independent cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 4, 2020

An exceptionally beautiful movie with some winning performances from a young and unproven cast,

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 19, 2014

George Washington is a mood piece first, and its triumph is in bottling up the intense feeling of early adolescence, and watching how tragedy transforms it.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 10, 2014

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

Oh, you could analyze and debate and dissect the individual vignettes to smithereens, which is what makes it literary, I 'spect. But that would be too much like homework.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2011

This morality tale represents the impressive feature debut by regional filmmaker David Gordon Green, a talent to watch

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 13, 2011

What makes Green's work such a thing of beauty is its relentless, yet altogether genuine, modesty.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 17, 2010

You have to bring a lot of yourself to this film if you want it to give something back, but the rewards are considerable.

| Jul 18, 2007

Stylized to the point of poetry, David Gordon Green's impressive debut fuses the lyricism of Terence Malick with Harmony Korine's willingness to poke around the garbage-strewn landscape of the American underclass.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 18, 2007

Undistinguished and uninvolving attempt to offer a rural spin on Kids.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2007

Amid languorous style, the story gets lost, which is a pity because it could have been a nice quirky one.

| Jul 17, 2007

Poetic, patient and beautiful, it's an astoundingly mature film from 25 year old debutant director Green.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

The film absorbs elements of documentary and improvisation to produce a remarkably organic whole.

| Jun 24, 2006

It's possible to keep one's feet on the ground and still appreciate the film's quiet verbal and visual poetry.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jul 21, 2005

Lovingly photographed in warm sunlight and deep colors.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2005

Has the feeling of a breathing issue of National Geographic as told threw the words of George Steinbeck and through the brush of Norman Rockwell.

| Aug 20, 2003

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 19, 2003

Whether George Washington is a false dawn or the start of a whole new hope it remains one of the films of the year. Dream with it while you can.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2003

Like eavesdropping on people you didn't even know existed in America

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2003

A gorgeous, almost non-narrative portrait of kids in small-town America

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 9, 2003