Stop-Loss-the first feature directed by Kimberly Peirce since Boys Don't Cry (1999)-is the best of the bunch. It's aims to be a Coming Home for our time, and it's the first film about the Iraq war ...

The plot: Soldiers return home after completing their tours in Iraq, but just as they go through the difficulties of acclimating back to civilian life, another surprise arises. The military contrac… ...

In a very real sense, all war movies are anti-war movies. Whatever the tone, whatever the genre, ... Stop-Loss Review A self-important war film with too much on it's mind.

Stop-Loss’ roll call of supporting tragedy hits hard – amputees, suicides and traumatised grunts drowning battle memories in booze. It’s Phillippe who grounds the movie, though.

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Here's the first major movie of the new year that touches greatness, and damn if there isn't a curse hanging over it. Stop-Loss, directed with ferocity and feeling by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don ...

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Director Kimberley Peirce couldn't decide whether to make Stop Loss a road trip movie, or an indictment of American military policy; consequently he succeeds with neither. Theresa Smith reviews.

Like so many movies these days, Kimberly Peirce's "Stop-Loss" suffers from excessive competence: This is a picture that takes a serious subject everyone in America should care about -- the fact ...