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Stop-Loss - Reviews

Opened: Mar 28, 2008

6.8 star rating

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yona71

	Member Rating:		10
By yona71, Flixster May 26, 2010
Talk about a film that's been overlooked! "Stop-Loss" is an intense look at a group of soldiers who return home from a tour in Iraq. The nightmare doesn't only... Read More

redlats

	Member Rating:		6
By redlats, Flixster Sep 28, 2009
I am not really into war movies. However, Stop-Loss kept me watching to the bitter end. It deals with the inhumanity of war, of soldiers trying to fit back int... Read More

kiriyamakazou

	Member Rating:		6
By kiriyamakazou, Flixster Aug 11, 2009
It's an enlightening film but doesn't really express it's ideas in the most eloquent of ways. When a character yells out "Fuck the President!" Subtlety slides o... Read More

allan913

	Member Rating:		8
By allan913, Flixster Jul 16, 2009
An intense and hard-hitting movie. It's thrilling, riveting and moving. It hits all the right notes with the characters and their emotions. Ryan Phillippe is el... Read More

mistershinobi

	Member Rating:		7
By mistershinobi, Flixster Mar 07, 2009
From all the flawed movies with important subject matters that disappoint everyone by not being deep enough and never taking things to the next level in 2 hours... Read More

julie

	Member Rating:		6
By julie, Flixster Dec 26, 2008
Fairly well-done look at the psychological devestation of war. Read More

jdfortunefan

	Member Rating:		7
By jdfortunefan, Flixster Nov 22, 2008
Aside from some bad Texas accents by a few of the actors, Stop-Loss is well written and nicely directed. This is not another anti-war film, but instead the st... Read More

gor41

	Member Rating:		6
By gor41, Flixster Oct 25, 2008
Po faced and worthy study of the effects of war on the ordinary grunts with a fine performance from Phillippe. Cornish can't handle a texas accent and Levitt co... Read More

armybratgeo

	Member Rating:		6
By armybratgeo, Flixster Jul 13, 2008
This was gonna go one of two ways, either gloriefy the war or bash it. People need to make their own minds about this. Having lived through stop loss myself, I ... Read More

USA Today	Critic Rating:	6
By Claudia Puig
Jul 06, 2010
Stop-Loss can't quite decide whether to focus on making a powerful statement on a controversial and unfamiliar military policy or on a more predictable drama about the traumatic effect of war on young people's lives.
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Toronto Star	Critic Rating:	6
By Philip Marchand
Jul 06, 2010
The movie is a gripping but very limited view of their lives.
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TIME Magazine	Critic Rating:	0
By Richard Schickel
Jul 06, 2010
As a nation, we owe them more than they owe us -- as this painfully necessary and heartfelt movie makes abundantly clear.
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San Francisco Chronicle	Critic Rating:	8
By Mick LaSalle
Jul 06, 2010
Clearly, 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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Philadelphia Inquirer	Critic Rating:	9
By Carrie Rickey
Jul 06, 2010
While it would be premature to decorate it as the Best Years of Our Lives or Coming Home of the Surge, Stop-Loss carries the emotional force and propulsive drama of the quintessential soldier's story.
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Newark Star-Ledger	Critic Rating:	8
By Stephen Whitty
Jul 06, 2010
There are good and confident choices here, particularly in the direction, and the way it integrates the soldiers' own war movies.
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Wall Street Journal	Critic Rating:	0
By Joanne Kaufman
Jul 06, 2010
Swamped by clichés, continuity problems, stock characters and very good intentions.
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New York Magazine	Critic Rating:	0
By David Edelstein
Jul 06, 2010
The power of Stop-Loss -- and this is no dumb joke -- is that it shows its hero between Iraq and a hard place.
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Ebert & Roeper	Critic Rating:	0
By Richard Roeper
Jul 06, 2010
[A] very worthy film.
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New Yorker	Critic Rating:	0
By David Denby
Jul 06, 2010
Stop-Loss is not a great movie, but it?s forceful, effective, and alive, with the raw, mixed-up emotions produced by an endless war -- a time when the patriotism of military families is in danger of being exploited beyond endurance.
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