World Trade Center
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 9, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
29
Mixed:
11
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

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60
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
A true story of courage and survival, yes. But viewing the destruction of the World Trade Center--in a film called World Trade Center--through this kind of prism represents a distinctly Hollywood brand of tunnel vision. Read full review
60
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Perhaps only a marginally effective movie about 9/11, because, I suspect, there can be no such thing as an effective movie about 9/11 -- at least not right now. Read full review
60
SlateDana Stevens
When Stone's movie is at its best, it simply ignores the temptation to say everything about 9/11, instead keeping its focus tightly trained on the two domestic dramas at its center. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
The problem is not so much that World Trade Center is an attempt to make a feel-good movie about a ghastly situation, it's that the result feels forced, manufactured and largely -- but not entirely -- unconvincing. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
World Trade Center shows us many things we already know, though with impressive flair, then plunges underground for an unconvincing drama based on a multitude of facts. It's upbeat, all right, but badly off kilter.
50
Washington PostDesson Thomson
It telegraphs its emotions loud and clear, but somehow they don't reach us. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
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 full review
50
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
World Trade Center is fatally benign -- an unexceptionable and therefore unexceptional heroic narrative that does little to further the tentative creep of our pop culture toward parsing the significance of that catastrophic day. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
I don't question the legitimacy of celebrating the courage of these individuals and their families, and I can even tolerate the hokey nostalgia for World War II epics. But I'm troubled that the filmmakers have elided so much else of what happened on that day, as if it were some kind of neutral backdrop. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
The politics of Stone's 9/11 movie lean right, if they lean any way at all. Mostly, the film sits up straight and just wants to be loved by all. There are more controversial Hallmark cards. Read full review
40
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
Almost unforgivably sentimental. Read full review
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