A Mighty Heart Critic Reviews
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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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A taut, meticulously crafted police procedural.Read the full review
Emotionally and viscerally compelling and retains a suspenseful, edge-of-the-seat quality.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
The film is fascinating and at times disturbing, but Winterbottom's arms-length style mutes any emotional impact.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
In his first studio venture, Michael Winterbottom coaxes forth a staggering wealth of detail from this terse, methodical account of Pearl's kidnapping and murder in Pakistan.Read the full review
Moving and frighteningly real.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
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 belongs to Jolie. She won an Oscar for 1999's "Girl, Interrupted," but this is by far her best performance.Read the full review
