A Mighty Heart Critic Reviews

Moving and frighteningly real.Read the full review

What is best about A Mighty Heart is that it doesn't reduce the Daniel Pearl story to a plot, but elevates it to a tragedy. A tragedy that illuminates and grieves for the hatred that runs loose in our world, hatred as a mad dog that attacks everyone. Attacks them for what seems, to the dog, the best of reasons.Read the full review

Emotionally and viscerally compelling and retains a suspenseful, edge-of-the-seat quality.Read the full review

The film belongs to Jolie. She won an Oscar for 1999's "Girl, Interrupted," but this is by far her best performance.Read the full review

Expertly fashioned documentary-style drama.Read the full review

Effectively fashioned, as jolting as it is polished, as well as a surprising, insistently political work of commercial art.Read the full review

The film's point of view is inevitably that of an outsider, which Danny Pearl was, and menace is the essence of this shattering story, which has been told with skill and urgent conviction. A Mighty Heart makes the terms of the terrorist threat palpable.Read the full review

Heart-wrenching film.Read the full review

Jolie simply exercises Mariane's persistent will, and honors her in the process.Read the full review