A Mighty Heart Critic Reviews
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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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I almost wish A Mighty Heart were about the Captain, and I'd bet director Michael Winterbottom does, too. The character contains all the contradictory impulses of this region of the world that the West tries and miserably fails to boil down to black and white.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
Despite the best of intentions, an actress who makes her own headlines gets in the way of the big picture.Read the full review
Moving and frighteningly real.Read the full review
The film is fascinating and at times disturbing, but Winterbottom's arms-length style mutes any emotional impact.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
Heart-wrenching film.Read the full review
This is one of those roles where casting can't help but trump acting. Like Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, Angelina Jolie IS Mariane Pearl--and that marquee-size "is" gets in the way, not of her performance, but of our ability to suspend disbelief and watch it.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
