...one of the most offensively cheap and concocted 'twist' endings of all time

| Original Score: D | Jan 13, 2014

Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2013

An overripe melodrama -- a time waster.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Manages to offend the same people it seeks to defend with the most ridiculous and nonsensical endings that I've ever seen.

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The filmmakers work so hard to bewilder and to preach that they give us no opportunity to think clearly about the serious life-and-death issues that the film claims to address.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Jan 15, 2005

Como suspense, o filme no desaponta. Porm, a ambiguidade moral de seus 'heris' acaba por transmitir uma mensagem oposta quela que o filme pretende defender.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 4, 2004

| Original Score: 68/100 | Mar 16, 2004

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 7, 2004

... [Alan] Parker lures you into the theater, but then you sit down and all he has waiting for you is a whoopee cushion.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jan 6, 2004

In arguing that calmly and deliberately taking a life can never be justified... it ends up arguing just the opposite. It's bad drama and worse politics.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 6, 2004

| Original Score: C+ | Nov 11, 2003

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 6, 2003

The film is so expertly crafted that it becomes an effective thriller. It is not, however, an indictment of the death penalty.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 1, 2003

It isn't long before we yearn to see David Gale as the poster-boy for deserved capital punishment.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 16, 2003

LThe Life of David Gale goes quietly into that good night during the doldrums of February, when studios discard their noble failures. . .

| Jun 5, 2003

I appear to be alone in my adoration of this strong film...

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2003

Dead Man Walking if written by Charlie Kaufman.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 28, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2003