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

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

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

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

| Jun 24, 2006

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

Those whose lives Coffey touches may find relief from physical ailments, but they seem no freer, more hopeful, or nobler for the experience.

| Original Score: C | May 8, 2002

There is no doubt that the director has mistaken size for quality with bum-numbing consequences.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2001

Hanks is in fine form, as is Sam Rockwell, as 'Wild Bill' Wharton, a new inmate so repulsively evil he's almost a cartoon (not quite, though).

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 21, 2001

A terrific, powerful movie!

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The three-hour-plus film permits the kind of detailing that not only brings the storytelling to life, but sometimes persuades us we're breathing to its rhythms.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The Green Mile often grabs, and generally holds, one's attention through the long journey.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

At the very least, The Green Mile is engaging and even moving.

| Jan 1, 2000

An engrossing picture.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Unassumingly strong, moving performances and Darabont's durable storytelling make it a trip worth taking.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

One terrific flick!

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Brilliant storytelling!

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Over the epic running time the film inches its way through a complex soap opera of events on the Row, punctuated by three pivotal and grisly executions via 'Old Sparky,' the electric chair.

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

A thoughtful, intelligent movie with outstanding direction.

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