The two stars...[Casey Affleck and Matt Damon]...both playing characters named Gerry, wander across the desert for some reason, and if you enjoy watching them on any pretext, you'll probably enjoy this; if you don't, you won't.

| Apr 11, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Absolutely transfixing at one moment and unbearably boring the next.

| Original Score: B+ | May 3, 2005

The picture can be read as a warning about the perils of improvisation -- a neat joke given how fruitful that method proves here.

| Oct 7, 2003

Mesmerising, daring and defiantly leftfield.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2003

If you can get lost along with it, Van Sant's Gerry is actually anything but empty: At times it's tonically liberating.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2003

Fascinating, even if perversely so, and quite beautiful.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2003

If nothing else, Gerry is restful, though I'm not sure that counts as a recommendation.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Apr 17, 2003

Now we know what happens when director Gus Van Sant gets bored. He makes us bored.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2003

A movie about time, and textures, and living in the moment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2003

The result is focused, breathtakingly gorgeous and unexpectedly droll.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 21, 2003

On the surface it may seem as barren as its desert, but underneath is a beautiful and surreal meditation.

| Original Score: B | Mar 20, 2003

Even though it is hugely self-indulgent, painfully slow and as repetitive as walking around in circles in the desert, the film has a sort of twisted charm by its end.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Mar 14, 2003

Directors are supposed to suffer for their art, but we're the ones stranded and craving sustenance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 14, 2003

An innovative and unusually artistic experiment.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 7, 2003

Van Sant fails to understand that when 'nothing' happens in the films of Tarr and Denis, it happens for a very good reason, not for a lack of anything better to do, as is the case here.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 4, 2003

Ragingly bad art that contributes to a definition of independent film as something no one would want to sit through.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 28, 2003

The best way to approach Gerry -- perhaps the only way -- is to treat it as a sanctuary, a film to be visited the way you would a Buddhist temple or a piece of ambient music.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 28, 2003

The movie is so gloriously bloody-minded, so perverse in its obstinacy, that it rises to a kind of mad purity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 28, 2003

Zzzzzzzz. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Ulph. Umph. Ach. ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz.

| Feb 28, 2003