World Trade Center Critic Reviews

Mr. Stone has taken a public tragedy and turned it into something at once genuinely stirring and terribly sad. His film offers both a harrowing return to a singular, disastrous episode in the recent past and a refuge from the ugly, depressing realities of its aftermath.Read the full review

This is a film of terrific selectivity. By focusing on two of the few who did survive the collapse, the film achieves emotional power and an uplifting ending.Read the full review

World Trade Center is Stone's most potent motion picture since "Platoon," and may be the most accessible across-the-board since "Wall Street."Read the full review

One reason World Trade Center is such a good, healing cry is that it absolves us of the discomfort of thinking about everything that has happened since.Read the full review

Where "United 93" was a superb example of masterful storytelling, World Trade Center is a more conventional rendering.Read the full review

Undeniably affecting, but you leave it wanting more.Read the full review

A scrupulous and honorable film. Yet it never comes close to being a revelatory one; it sentimentalizes more than it haunts.Read the full review

World Trade Center yields lovely and touching moments but proves a slow-going, arduous movie experience.Read the full review

Stone does everything he can to do justice to the real-life people he's depicting, and yet nothing he does can cover up the film's single but overarching weakness: The personal story he uses to portray the larger event is limited in scope and impact.Read the full review