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

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

Worth seeing just for Weaver and LaPaglia.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2003

Too much virtue can burden a film. But The Guys, based on the play Anne Nelson wrote in response to 9/11, earns its sentiment.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2003

[A] stuporously solemn film.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 4, 2003

A movie like The Guys is why film criticism can be considered work.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 4, 2003

In its own remarkable and unshowy way, this movie is truly about how Sept. 11 seemed to equalize and unite New Yorkers across imaginary barriers of class and lifestyle.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2003

One from the heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2003

Upper West Sidey exercise in narcissism and self-congratulation disguised as a tribute.

Full Review | Apr 4, 2003

Not a bad journey at all.

Full Review | Apr 4, 2003

Sigourney Weaver shines as a writer who helps a New York fire captain, played by Anthony LaPaglia, find the words to remember the men he lost on Sept. 11.

| Apr 4, 2003

Those who aren't put off by the film's austerity will find it more than capable of rewarding them.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 4, 2003

Is it a great movie? Certainly not. Should it be seen? Absolutely.

| Original Score: B | Apr 3, 2003

So honest and heartfelt is Nelson's writing that the movie, while never surprising, never becomes tedious.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 3, 2003

An exercise in art therapy rather than a work of art.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 2, 2003

Watching the film is like reading a Times Portrait of Grief that keeps shifting focus to the journalist who wrote it.

Full Review | Apr 1, 2003