Pushing Tin Critic Reviews

The movie is worth seeing, for the good stuff. I'm recommending it because of the performances and the details in the air-traffic control center.Read the full review

Takes viewers into a unique world. It's not just about air traffic controllers. It's about controllers in a specific place and from a specific social background.Read the full review

A mess, but for the most part it's a fascinating mess. It helps that it boasts great acting all around--not just from Cusack, Thornton, and Jolie, but also from Cate BlanchettRead the full review

It's an intriguing film, one of the year's most interesting, but involving as much of it is, it leaves an unsatisfied taste when it's over.Read the full review

Newell's ensemble timing and breezily sardonic style make it work better than might be expected.Read the full review

Makes you wish that Newell and company had had the gumption to finish what they so enticingly started.Read the full review

Top-flight cast.Read the full review

Unfortunately, story's tension climaxes a half-hour before the film is over, and thereafter dissipates much of the charge and good will generated up to that point.Read the full review

The premise is inherently interesting, but the screenplay (by Glen & Les Charles) is unwilling to take chances. Instead, it uses stock events to push events forward.Read the full review