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.

In a very real sense, all war movies are anti-war movies. Whatever the tone, whatever the genre, there is little denying that a film about even the most justified of historical conflicts speaks ...

“Stop-Loss” is an emotional, heart-wrenching film that gives you different insights on how war affects average citizens. It opened my eyes to the difficulties veterans face as they return home ...

Stop-Loss ends with some disturbing statistics of just how many men and women in the U.S. military have been dealt the title’s unfortunate hand, which a character in the movie refers to as a ...

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 ...

Review On the surface, Kimberly Peirce’s Stop-Loss doesn’t bear much resemblance to her momentous debut, Boys Don’t Cry, the story of a young woman (Hilary Swank) who pretended—joyfully ...

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The joke that Martin Scorsese seizes on throughout his megawattage Rolling Stones concert movie, Shine a Light, is that the band’s members have been asked “How much longer can you stay ...

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 ...