The Green Mile: Critic Reviews

96%

MovieWeb: 9 reviews

80%

RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

Much of the three-hour movie takes place in the prison, but the resonant characterization, expansive plotting, and judicious use of exterior locations and flashbacks turn the walls into windows.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

25

Three long hours of wind, an exercise in titanic self-importance intent on passing off klunky rhetoric as poignant drama.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Richard Corliss TIME Magazine (Top Critic)

To more than a few viewers, this one will feel like a life sentence.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

80

Thoughtful, intelligent movie for older teens.
Full Review » 1 year ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

70

...despite the cliches and stereotypes, the film's cast manages to lift it from the depths of the commonplace and make watching it enjoyable.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Rob White Sight and Sound

How many blockbusters deal with that kind of grief?
Full Review » 4 years ago
Film4

80

Though the film drifts off down some long blind alleys, when Darabont exercises discipline the result is highly effective.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

80

Dotted with many fine moments, clotted with a few flabby ones.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

50

Overextending its welcome, Frank Darabont's film is the most commercially popular adaptation of a Stephen King novella, but it's also a slow, often dull prison drama.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Derek Adams Time Out

The supernatural elements carry an undeniable emotional charge, but the solution to the underlying murder mystery is disappointingly tidy and trite.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

Although The Green Mile is a satisfying and affecting movie, it's not The Shawshank Redemption -- not by a long shot.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Ron Wells Film Threat

70

One of the best prison films ever made.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Staci Layne Wilson StaciWilson.com

Mr. Jingles was robbed! (no mouse-Oscar)
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jeffrey Overstreet Looking Closer

42

This movie is being described as inspiring? To me it just seems morbid, melancholy, sad, and far too long.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Judith Egerton Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

88

Of all the movies based on King novels, The Green Mile ranks near the top -- but below Darabont's first, The Shawshank Redemption.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Hollywood.com

100

Darabont explores the range of human kindness and cruelty as he lovingly and patiently sculpts his large cast of characters against magnificent scenery.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

90

Hanks and the other guards' acting is impeccable as would be expected, but Duncan and his fellow prisoners are also disturbingly real.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Nick Davis Nick's Flick Picks

9

A deeply racist movie, though clearly none of the filmmakers thinks so... By the picture's end, we are asked to grasp electrocution as in some way an act of benevolence.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Jean Lowerison San Diego Metropolitan

Suffice it to say you must be willing to buy some pretty incredible stuff if you want to enjoy this experience.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer

75

Its emotional rewards outshine its faults.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Kevin N. Laforest Montreal Film Journal

88

If this movie doesn't get a truckload of Oscar noms, something's rotten in the kingdom of Hollywood!
Full Review » 10 years ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

100

Quando a historia chega ao fim e as luzes se acendem, voce sente que, de certa forma, o filme permanecera com voce por muito tempo.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Steven D. Greydanus Decent Films Guide

42

Those whose lives Coffey touches may find relief from physical ailments, but they seem no freer, more hopeful, or nobler for the experience.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Peter Keough Boston Phoenix

Overlong and potholed, The Green Mile is still worth the journey.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Chuck Rudolph Matinee Magazine

0

Duncan's beautiful performance is worth at least three hours of anyone's life.
Full Review » 10 years ago