Stop-Loss
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 49 Ratings
- Starring: Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ryan Phillippe
- Summary: Sgt. Brandon King fought for America. He fought for freedom. He fought for his family. He gave everything, and then he came home to begin his life anew. But now his superiors want more: They want him back. (Paramount Pictures)
- Director: Kimberly Peirce
- Genre(s): Drama, War
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Positive: 20 out of 35
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Mixed: 13 out of 35
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Negative: 2 out of 35
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91Stop-Loss is a human story first and foremost, and Peirce and her stellar young cast ensure that the message never gets in the way of the storytelling.
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75Clearly, 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.
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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.
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38What little anti-war critique Peirce presents -- and she has it in her, which makes it all the more dubious -- gets trampled over by jingoistic Rambo porn.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 25
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Mixed: 3 out of 25
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Negative: 8 out of 25
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TylerS.9I thought this movie was truly moving and it kept drawing me in as a viewer, i would highly recommend this movie to any and all!
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JosephB.8
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kenz7Anti-American movie? did u not see all the flags(tattoos on soldiers,etc). Criticizing war does NOT means criticizing America. Unless you like wars.
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ChrisW.3
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