It's directed with taut efficiency by Rob Reiner.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 11, 2023

Designed to get the audience rooting for this upper-class underdog, the movie accomplishes its task with military efficiency. But since the deck is stacked and the cards well worn, it hardly seems a victory to cherish.

| Feb 8, 2018

By pitting Cruise against Nicholson in the film`s final courtroom confrontation, Sorkin and Reiner are pitting two notions of masculinity and two notions of stardom against each other.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2014

A brisk and familiar courtroom drama of the old school, as pleasant to watch as it is predictable, Men more than anything else is a tribute to pure star power.

| Apr 30, 2014

The whole film, with its steady, important-picture pacing, its foursquare visual style, and its pseudo-profundity, is a piece of glorified banality.

Full Review | Apr 30, 2014

The literally in-your-face camera work can easily expose an actor's weaknesses, but, with the lens framed on Nicholson's bulldog visage, he lets loose with volcanic fury. His demagoguery and gung-ho self-righteousness are something to behold.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2014

The driving force of the story is watching Cruise`s character develop some backbone and staying power.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2014

As you may have suspected, Jack Nicholson steals the show. His Col. Nathan Jessep isn't in a lot of scenes, but when he's there, you can't take your eyes off him.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 30, 2014

The film's entire cast and crew prove up to the task, and there's something both comfortably old-fashioned and blazingly contemporary about Aaron Sorkin's screenplay.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 30, 2014

I'm usually a sucker for courtroom dramas, but Rob Reiner's highly mechanical 1992 feature... kept putting me to sleep.

| Apr 30, 2014

Directed by Rob Reiner, from Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of his hit Broadway play, A Few Good Men is a thrillingly effective crowd pleaser.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

An extraordinarily well-made movie, which wastes no words or images in telling a conventional but compelling story.

| Dec 21, 2008

The same histrionic fireworks that gripped theater audiences will prove even more compelling to filmgoers due to the star power and dramatic screw-tightening.

| Oct 18, 2008

The intellectual cut-and-thrust of the courtroom is largely absent here, and the denouement seems slick, arbitrary, and derived from the Captain Queeg catalogue.

| Jan 26, 2006

So well written and so well acted that you almost don't notice what a shoddy and clumsy piece of filmmaking it is.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2005

The screenplay is a good one, directed with care and acted, for the most part, with terrific conviction.

| May 20, 2003

That the performances are uniformly outstanding is a tribute to Rob Reiner (Misery), who directs with masterly assurance, fusing suspense and character to create a movie that literally vibrates with energy.

Full Review | May 12, 2001

Men is full of loaded, manly moments, great clashes of will and excellent buzz cuts.

| Jan 1, 2000

A Few Good Men is one of those movies that tells you what it's going to do, does it, and then tells you what it did.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

That rarest of things: a top-level Hollywood court-room drama with the smarts to match its slick style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000