Gerry
Miramax Films | Release Date: February 14, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
9
Negative:
7
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100
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Take a chance on Gerry. It's only a movie, and you'll get out alive no matter what happens on the screen. You might even find you've had a rare adventure. Read full review
100
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Conceptually bold and rapturously beautiful Gerry, a minimalist landscape film that's unlike anything on the American independent scene. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
The movie is on some level a stunt, but it has the fervent, sun-dazed pull of an authentic experience unfolding in real time, with glints of drama, comedy, and terror mixed into the almost-but-not-quite tedium. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleStaff (Not credited)
Like the man to whom this film is dedicated, Ken Kesey, Gerry just wants to go "further." Read full review
88
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Watching Gus Van Sant's Gerry is the cinematic equivalent of watching paint dry. I mean that as high praise. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Casual moviegoers may enjoy it, too, if they follow a simple rule: Stop looking for the way out and let yourself get lost. Read full review
80
The New York TimesStephen Holden
With all its quirks, Gerry seeps into your pores like the wind-whipped sand that stings the faces of these disoriented hikers. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesManohla Dargis
About as non-narrative a film as you're likely to see in commercial theaters. This makes it a curiosity and, less charitably, something of a gimmick, but mostly it makes it a challenge. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The movie is so gloriously bloody-minded, so perverse in its obstinacy, that it rises to a kind of mad purity. The longer the movie ran, the less I liked it and the more I admired it. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Somewhere between profound and ludicrous, kind of like a cross between "Waiting for Godot" and "Dude, Where's My Car?" Read full review
75
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
The result is like a "Waiting for Godot" for the video-game generation. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
For those with the patience to latch onto Van Sant's slow, methodical groove. It's worth trying. Read full review
70
Dallas ObserverGregory Weinkauf
There's elegance and grace here, fostering an opportunity to reflect upon why men get so dutiful about being down. It's worth the hike. Read full review
70
SlateDavid Edelstein
In some strange way, I admire the enterprise. Like his Gerrys, Van Sant doesn't seem to know where he's going to wind up when he embarks on these journeys. The ether that seeps into his head might be the price we have to pay for his keeping his mind so open. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
It's certainly a provocation, with a few funny moments, and for my money it's less phony and offensive than "Finding Forrester." Read full review
50
New York PostJonathan Foreman
A gorgeously shot endurance test that is impossible to get through on anything less than a full night's sleep and a double shot of espresso. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
A wee Boy Scout would have done far better in the wilds. It’s tough to think "Waiting for Godot" when what you’re watching is closer to "Dumb & Dumber." Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Gerry isn't much of anything, and doesn't claim to be. It's a movie stripped of its movieness. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyJohn Powers
Van Sant ultimately reveals so little about this odd couple that we frankly don't give a damn what happens to them. Nor, apparently, does he. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
If it were a landscape painting, Gerry would deserve a place in the National Gallery. But as a movie...deserves its own wing in The Old Curiosity Shop. Read full review
40
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Exercise in existential tedium that it is, Gerry isn't without devotees. Read full review
40
Film ThreatMerle Bertrand
For the most part, Gerry is a lot of self-indulgent baloney. Read full review
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Gerry moves slowly and deliberately, like a torture technique, leaving us feeling as dry and dusty and lost as its two characters. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Long takes do not a masterpiece make, and the suspicion that the whole thing is a lark is only bolstered by Damon and Affleck's inability to contain their giggles. Read full review
30
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Defiantly uncommunicative picture. Read full review
30
Washington PostStephen Hunter
In the end, Gerry is beyond the simple question of pleasure. Seeing it may be no fun at all, but then discomfort is part of the price one pays in learning. Read full review
30
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
Gerry is all manner without any trace of depth. Read full review
25
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
The desert is clean in Gerry, but it's also empty. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Strands Matt Damon and Casey Affleck (both named Gerry) in a desert with little to say and do except lose themselves in an existential wasteland of doomed beauty. Read full review
20
Washington PostDesson Thomson
The most screamingly obvious reaction to Gerry is: what a load of pseudo-arty you-know-what. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Gerry is ragingly bad art that contributes to a definition of independent film as something no one would want to sit through. Read full review
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