November 4, 2009
Wow, reading about it gave me chills. =)
Ben Foster, Samantha Morton, Woody Harrelson
In his most powerful performance to date, Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification se...( read more
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November 13, 2009
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
November 13, 2009
Bob Mondello, NPR
Messengers with the worst possible message, they nonetheless manage to be human and alive .... In a film that itself bears sad tidings about the costs of war, that is an affirming, even an inspiring, ... full review
November 12, 2009
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
The Messenger, showing humanity under siege, opens wounds inflicted by the Iraq War -- not on the battlefield but in the hearts of the families of soldiers who never made it back home. full review
November 11, 2009
Armond White, The New York Press
So bungled up with fashionable ambivalence about the Iraq War that every single behavioral detail is not just prejudicial but wrong. full review
November 9, 2009
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
Moverman's scripting is subdued and emotionally authentic. full review
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