Stop-Loss
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: March 28, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
20
Mixed:
13
Negative:
2
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60
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeFore
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 full review
60
Village VoiceScott Foundas
In the end, Stop-Loss's evening-news topicality proves both an asset and a liability--an irresolvable structural conundrum. Simply put, the film so effectively reconstitutes those Vietnam-homecoming touchstones that we can anticipate its every move well before it makes them. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
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 full review
60
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
Stop-Loss is a bit uneven. Mixed messages abound. Read full review
60
EmpireHelen O'Hara
Strong performances from the young cast make a compelling case that the US govt is failing its soldiers, but the film’s a little too much of a blunt instrument. Read full review
50
VarietyJoe Leydon
A wildly uneven drama, by turns sincere and synthetic. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
With the release of Stop-Loss, a precedent of sorts has definitely been set. If we've yet to see a brilliant Iraq movie, the wait is over for a bad one – this is it. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoanne Kaufman
Swamped by clichés, continuity problems, stock characters and very good intentions. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Heavy metal, alt-pop, southern rock, orchestral swells, wailing Middle Eastern tunes all vie for our attention, but none of this noise drowns out the sound of good intentions twisting themselves into an impotent knot. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Though its intentions are noble, it's hampered by a stock romantic subplot (Phillipe falls for his friend's squeeze, Abbie Cornish), a familiar structure (since The Best Years of Our Lives soldiers invariably come home in threes), and a lack of symmetry (some of Gordon-Levitt's story seems to have wound up on the cutting-room floor). Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
An earnest and well-meaning but disappointing failure. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
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 full review
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
A filmmaker's personal connection to the material doesn't necessarily mean that the resulting picture will be any good, and Stop-Loss is so dramatically tedious that it feels remote instead of resonant. Read full review
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