Whenever this Lantern returns to terra firma (too often), its imaginative flights are ground down under the Warner overlords’ demographic-pandering heels.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2024

All the prancing about on a galaxy far far away where Hal [Ryan Reynolds] meets the other Green Lanterns, and the wise ancients, and a gigantic gruff sergeant-type who learns him his ropes is all a bit of a bore.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 2, 2019

Green Lantern is not a perfect movie, but it's fun to watch.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 8, 2017

How many more of these superheroes can we take?

| Oct 7, 2011

The green aesthetic misfires: the whole film looks as if it's been inspired by a particular shade of washing-up liquid, or the glowing screens of ancient computers.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 11, 2011

Things improve as the plot kicks in, thanks to enjoyable performances from Peter Sarsgaard, as the more-or-less human villain, and Blake Lively as the feisty heroine.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2011

A certain tone is needed to carry off the script's manifold absurdities. It has to be tongue-in-cheek rather than foot-in-mouth and Reynolds' success rate is intermittent at best.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 10, 2011

The Green Lantern, directed by Martin Campbell and with a script credited to four different writers, isn't so much bad as it is very, very dull.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 25, 2011

A muddled mess of a superhero film swathed in layer upon layer of (fairly necessary) exposition and burdened by a seriocomic turn by lead Ryan Reynolds.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 24, 2011

A tedious hodgepodge of rote conflicts and character hang-ups.

| Original Score: C | Jun 24, 2011

Apart from having no particular reason to exist onscreen, especially at these prices, it's not half bad.

| Jun 20, 2011

The superhero genre is the home-court of the underdog, of skinny Peter Parkers and mutant outcasts, of heroes born from pain or ingenuity. In Green Lantern, the rich get richer.

| Jun 17, 2011

Even by the standards of the current run of mediocre comic-book movies, this one stands out for its egregious shoddiness.

| Jun 17, 2011

As a disjointed rumble in the cosmos, it's both too much and too little, and too dorky looking. In this case, Green means stop.

| Original Score: D+ | Jun 17, 2011

It isn't innovative, it isn't deep, the characters aren't particularly well-developed, but I still had a good time watching Green Lantern. It's hard to dislike a movie that has shortcomings and still provides an...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.1/2 | Jun 17, 2011

At least the filmmakers acknowledge that Reynolds in green tights and mask still looks like his non-Green Lantern alter ego, cocky test pilot Hal Jordan. There's none of this Clark Kent/Superman silliness.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 17, 2011

It's almost as if no one cared to try hard enough to tell a coherent and engaging story.

| Original Score: D | Jun 17, 2011

If only the filmmakers had put as much creative energy into the character of Hal Jordan as they did into his lovingly rendered CGI-enhanced suit

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 17, 2011

[The] movie groans with the strain of explaining who Green Lantern is, while also trying to sell the movie as a big, eye-popping summer entertainment. What gets sacrificed on the altar of this new franchise launch is any real sense of fun.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 17, 2011

Another DC comics superhero, another ho-hum 3D movie adventure.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 17, 2011