Stop-Loss carries the emotional force and propulsive drama of the quintessential soldier's story.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Even when the script slips into sentiment, Peirce sticks with her troubled, questing soldiers, and through this raw and riveting movie, they stick with us.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: John Anderson
It's a remarkably entertaining movie, thanks in part to a first-rate cast and a director who knows you can't make a point without calling everyone to attention.Read Full Review »
A painfully polite Iraq war drama pitched at the MTV generation.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
It's an uneven experience, with some evocative moments and others that don't resonate as much as they should.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Scott Foundas
In the end, Stop-Loss's evening-news topicality proves both an asset and a liability--an irresolvable structural conundrum. Simply put, the film so effectively reconstitutes those Vietnam-homecoming touchstones that we can anticipate its every move well before it makes them.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
Ms. Peirce’s movie, which she wrote with Mark Richard, is not only an earnest, issue-driven narrative, but also a feverish entertainment, a passionate, at times overwrought melodrama gaudy with violent actions and emotions.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Heavy metal, alt-pop, southern rock, orchestral swells, wailing Middle Eastern tunes all vie for our attention, but none of this noise drowns out the sound of good intentions twisting themselves into an impotent knot.Read Full Review »
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