G
"g" Productions LLC | Release Date: September 16, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
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11
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70
VarietyScott Foundas
A handsome, compelling drama, about the African-American elite settling in the Hamptons, that more than stands on its own. Read full review
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L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Cherot (who also co-wrote the script with Charles E. Drew Jr.) has made that rare hip-hop movie that doesn't fetishize lurid ghetto clichés. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Despite the updated setting and some on-the-money performances, the sleek if dramatically flimsy results make for a less than great "Gatsby." Read full review
50
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Unable to embrace the world he's seeking to depict, Cherot is left with a lifeless shell, a movie so preoccupied with being noble that it forgets to be interesting. The problem with G is not that it's unbelievable, it's just boring. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
A hip-hop reimagining of "The Great Gatsby" that fails both as an update of F. Scott Fitzgerald's dissection of American aspirations and class barriers and on its own boorish terms. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The problem with G is not merely that the ending doesn't work and feels hopelessly contrived. It's also that the plot adds too many unnecessary characters and subplots, so that the main line gets misplaced. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy Burr
If the movie's not as bad as it sounds, it's not all that great, either. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
Unpolished but entertaining. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyGregory Kirschling
"The Great Gatsby" was famously bungled in the pulseless 1974 movie with Robert Redford. G, which updates the story with an African-American cast, is another strikeout, further destroying F. Scott Fitzgerald's film batting average. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Seems like a dopey idea to me, but if you aren't familiar with the Fitzgerald novel, you may enjoy this; at least Jones and his costars play the story as if they believed in it. Read full review
40
The New York TimesLaura Kern
A somewhat faithful but not very graceful retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's elegant Jazz Age tragedy "The Great Gatsby." Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
For a film about shimmering surfaces and the glittering allure of the superficial, G boasts a depressingly flat, undistinguished visual style, and whenever Bill Conti's score reaches for rarified, elegant romance, it instead suggests the dewy earnestness of a feminine hygiene commercial. Read full review
40
Village VoicePete L'Official
One 'hood-rich-meets-blue-blood-rich scene is employed as comedic throwaway; it's also the film's truest. The rest: treacly orchestral swells for the brooding, oh-so-familiar impresario, Summer G, and no green light but the one mistakenly given to start production. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneAllison Benedikt
Cherot shot G on a tight schedule, but instead of this age-old indie predicament generating a certain scrappy passion, the film just looks cheap. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
It's an ugly affair overall, but at least you can say you've never seen such beautiful shirts. Read full review
30
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
For anyone to enjoy this starchy, contrived exercise in vanity and product placement, it's best not to have read the book. In fact, it's best not to have read ANY book. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
This poorly acted, directed and written (but slick-looking) vanity project was produced by Andrew Lauren (Ralph's son also ineptly plays G's major-domo) and shot at least four years ago. Read full review
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