Freedomland
Sony Pictures Releasing | Release Date: February 17, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
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Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
14
Negative:
9
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38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Steer clear of Freedomland, the movie. Your time would be better spent reading Richard Price's much more compelling 1998 novel. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
An overblown urban crime drama that should be a lot better than it is. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
This tale of a white mother's kid gone missing in a black New Jersey neighborhood - and the tensions and news media attention that ensue - is pretty much pure jive. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Roth takes three powerhouse actors -- Julianne Moore as the mother, Samuel L. Jackson as the cop who interrogates her and Edie Falco as another woman who lost her son -- and reduces their talents to rubble and their characters to screeching cliches. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
With Roth at the helm of a script attributed to Price, there is minimal suspense, audience involvement or coherent social commentary. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
Freedomland is the worst kind of bad movie: one that thinks it's important. Read full review
20
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
Freedomland manages a seemingly impossible feat: It's both turgid AND overwrought, eliciting the shriek that fades into a yawn without anyone ever noticing. It's a wholly dreary piece of work. Read full review
10
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
An early candidate for worst film of the year is Freedomland, an inept, lethally dull drama. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The production can best be described by several f-words. It is frenetic, frazzled and febrile. It is also feeble -- almost touchingly so, if you think of what bottomless insecurity must have prompted so much bombast.
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