Stop-Loss Critic Reviews
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Based upon 13 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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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 the full review
It's an uneven experience, with some evocative moments and others that don't resonate as much as they should.Read the full review
After a strong start, Stop-Loss becomes driven by a series of contrivances before falling prey to bad melodrama and even a little cheesiness.Read the full review
Swamped by clichés, continuity problems, stock characters and very good intentions.Read the full review
A wildly uneven drama, by turns sincere and synthetic.Read the full review
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 the full review
A young cast and hotheaded melodramatic streak make it broadly accessible, perhaps enough so to help the film scrape past boxoffice challenges faced by other Iraq-centered features.Read the full review
Stop-Loss is a film that does it right.Read the full review
A painfully polite Iraq war drama pitched at the MTV generation.Read the full review
Clearly, Peirce's motives are pure. She's not using the "stop-loss" issue as a wedge to make the government or the administration look bad. She's using it to dramatize an injustice and to advocate on behalf of the soldiers.Read the full review
