There are several scenes of tremendous power. But the same problems that plagued The Shawshank Redemption are in full force here.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2022

Now, for the first time, Darabonts The Green Mile is available on 4K UHD with high-dynamic range, rejuvenating the drama, imbuing it with the visual energy to accompany its bittersweet narrative.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Feb 24, 2022

At times, you notice The Green Mile tugging your heartstrings. But aside from a moment or two over the course of three hours, the viewer gives in, entrenched in the proceedings and deeply affected by the spell of these characters.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 23, 2022

Make no mistake that The Green Mile is powerful and draws on our emotions but the film is also too long.

| Feb 22, 2022

The simple fable can't stand such scrutiny. More pivotally, the weight given to each moment lends The Green Mile a ponderousness that works against the emotions the story seems to want to plug into.

| Dec 10, 2019

Unfortunately the movie can never shake the uncomfortable and trope-filled premise.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 28, 2019

Much of the three-hour movie takes place in the prison, but the resonant characterization, expansive plotting, and judicious use of exterior locations and flashbacks turn the walls into windows.

| Apr 8, 2011

Thoughtful, intelligent movie for older teens.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 28, 2010

...despite the clichs and stereotypes, the film's cast manages to lift it from the depths of the commonplace and make watching it enjoyable.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 6, 2009

How many blockbusters deal with that kind of grief?

| Oct 18, 2008

To more than a few viewers, this one will feel like a life sentence.

| Aug 24, 2008

Though the film drifts off down some long blind alleys, when Darabont exercises discipline the result is highly effective.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2008

Dotted with many fine moments, clotted with a few flabby ones.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 14, 2008

Overextending its welcome, Frank Darabont's film is the most commercially popular adaptation of a Stephen King novella, but it's also a slow, often dull prison drama.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 5, 2008

The supernatural elements carry an undeniable emotional charge, but the solution to the underlying murder mystery is disappointingly tidy and trite.

| Jun 24, 2006

Although The Green Mile is a satisfying and affecting movie, it's not The Shawshank Redemption -- not by a long shot.

| May 26, 2006

One of the best prison films ever made.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

This movie is being described as inspiring? To me it just seems morbid, melancholy, sad, and far too long.

| Original Score: C | Dec 6, 2004

Of all the movies based on King novels, The Green Mile ranks near the top -- but below Darabont's first, The Shawshank Redemption.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 26, 2004

Three long hours of wind, an exercise in titanic self-importance intent on passing off klunky rhetoric as poignant drama.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 25, 2003