USA Today
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6
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By Claudia Puig
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Jul 06, 2010
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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
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6
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By Philip Marchand
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Jul 06, 2010
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The movie is a gripping but very limited view of their lives.
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TIME Magazine
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0
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By Richard Schickel
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Jul 06, 2010
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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
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8
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By Mick LaSalle
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Jul 06, 2010
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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
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9
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By Carrie Rickey
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Jul 06, 2010
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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
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8
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By Stephen Whitty
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Jul 06, 2010
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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
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0
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By Joanne Kaufman
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Jul 06, 2010
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Swamped by clichés, continuity problems, stock characters and very good intentions.
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New York Magazine
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0
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By David Edelstein
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Jul 06, 2010
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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
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0
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By Richard Roeper
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Jul 06, 2010
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[A] very worthy film.
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New Yorker
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0
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By David Denby
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Jul 06, 2010
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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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