Very well acted performances from Sigourney Weaver and Anthony Lapaglia, the excellent screenplay, and fluid hazy direction make this a hidden masterpiece.

| Apr 29, 2009

The occasional intercut of fire department surveillance camera footage isn't exactly making the most of the cinema medium.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 6, 2009

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Painfully earnest but sporadically quite moving...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2005

The Guys accurately reflects all the helplessness and directionless determination of those unreal days.

| Original Score: 2.5 | Dec 27, 2004

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 23, 2004

If you want an idea of what New York was like in the immediate days after 9/11, here you go.

| Sep 12, 2003

A well-intentioned misfire that doesn't work in the way it intended.

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

A noble attempt, but not much more.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jul 4, 2003

Weaver, LaPaglia and director Simpson have little problem keeping us involved as they grapple with conflicting feelings in the ways nearly all Americans did.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 4, 2003

[An example of our instinct to] moderate collective tragedies into easily-digested cud for bovine mastication on the Oprah show.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jul 3, 2003

Do not miss this film.

| Jun 21, 2003

A modest masterpiece.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 20, 2003

Besides the fact that it's about 9/11, it's also an effective film because you learn something about the lives of the firemen who are willing to lay down their lives for our safety, which was true long before the year 2001

Full Review | May 19, 2003

What makes the movie work - to an admittedly limited extent - is the commitment of two genuinely engaging performers. Weaver and LaPaglia are both excellent, in the kind of low-key way that allows us to forget that they are actually movie folk.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | May 5, 2003

One of those rare and exemplary motion pictures that is likely to make audiences of strangers want to hold hands.

Full Review | May 1, 2003

If anyone needs reminding of those profound post-9/11 feelings, now or later, The Guys will be there to do it.

Full Review | Apr 22, 2003

The sobriety of the play has been preserved at the expense of the movie.

| Apr 15, 2003

Stands as a document of what it felt like to be a New Yorker -- or, really, to be a human being -- in the weeks after 9/11.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 5, 2003