Freedomland
Sony Pictures Releasing | Release Date: February 17, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
14
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
An unexpectedly troubling crime thriller. Read full review
58
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Unfortunately, the waste of artistic possibilities dwarfs the human wreckage - and the human salvage - in Freedomland. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian Lowry
Despite a few raw moments, pic feels like a Lifetime movie with a marquee cast. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Only Edie Falco, appearing as a bereft mother leading a citizen's group that searches for missing children, suggests the great film that Freedomland might have been. Read full review
50
PremiereJessica Letkemann
Surrounding Council and Moore in this cacophonous, bleak New Jersey are a set of cops, neighbors, and relatives played by actors that the unimaginative Roth yanked directly from various TV gritty crime shows; it's like he thought HBO was his personal casting agent. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Individual scenes feel authentic, but the story tries to build bridges between loose ends. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
This would have made a fascinating film if Freedomland were one movie. Instead, it turns into several movies, none fully realized. What could have been an unusually smart police procedural becomes a sprawling, overwrought melodrama that itself morphs into a sort of spiritual romance. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
A slight, not entirely engaging mystery with slight overtones about the dangers of racial profiling that, unlike "Clockers," treats its urban-plight theme as a backdrop, instead of its main subject. Read full review
50
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Freedomland, overall, could have been so much better. But Moore, even in a performance as patchy as this one, is something to watch. She's an echo of the movie that might have been. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Ordinarily it's kind of hard to screw up a Richard Price story, but the writer is his own worst enemy here, with a screenplay so filled with bromides and object lessons from God, you can't tell what he's trying to say. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
The problem lies not in the plotting alone. Roth's direction does nothing to bring clarity to the story and its characters, and his blocking of the film's action scenes is downright muddled and vague. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Anyone who has seen the trailers for Freedomland, which don't exactly skimp on maternal angst, already knows this is going to be a sad-mommy story. What we don't know is that it may be a bad-mommy story as well. Read full review
40
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
What, a white woman can’t take an innocent drive through the ghetto without arousing suspicion? What’s this world coming to? Read full review
40
EmpireAngie Errigo
A prime example of what works in a book not working in a film. Read full review
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