World Trade Center

A physically impressive, well-acted, sometimes emotionally powerful – and mostly apolitical – re-creation of that awful day that has some...

Oliver Stone has made an honorable film, in other words, and almost the best thing I can say about it is that it doesn’t feel like an Ol...

World Trade Center yields lovely and touching moments but proves a slow-going, arduous movie experience.

Very simply, World Trade Center is a powerful movie experience, a hymn in plainsong that glorifies that which is best in the American spirit.

World Trade Center is Stone’s most potent motion picture since Platoon, and may be the most accessible across-the-board since Wall Street.

Where «United 93» was a superb example of masterful storytelling, World Trade Center is a more conventional rendering.

Despite being true, it feels fictional: a distillation of human values rather than an objective chronicle. That’s not necessarily a bad...

At its best it shares with Stone’s finest work a feeling for the imminence of death and salvation.

Sometimes this kind of writing can evoke unaffected sincerity; other times, it seems merely trite, perhaps reflecting the inexperience of first-tim...

Without being too glib about it, World Trade Center is a most improbable thing: an upbeat film about September 11, one of the few stories to e...

It displays optimism, patriotism, emotional frankness and faith. Detractors might call it sentimental. Most of all, it exhibits no political slant...

World Trade Center celebrates the ties that bind us, the bonds that keep us going, the goodness that stands as a rebuke to the horror of that...

Even without his box of political tricks, Oliver Stone remains the foremost cinematic shrink for America’s distress.

Undeniably affecting, but you leave it wanting more.

A scrupulous and honorable film. Yet it never comes close to being a revelatory one; it sentimentalizes more than it haunts.

It may not tell us anything about terror in the new millennium, but the filmmakers' work is solid and affecting. In its own over-emphatic, sometime...

Although the conclusion is heavily sentimentalized, Stone finds the common ground Americans can rally around for relief from the devastation: We ar...

Piercingly moving and utterly unpolitical, World Trade Center holds us in a fierce grip.

The strong personalities of Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal, who play typical supportive wives, keep scenes from sagging.

A straightforward, earnest, sentimental picture: It’s all the things you’d think a Sept. 11 movie directed by Oliver Stone wo...

It’s as harrowing as moviegoing gets.

Where «United 93» was lean and merciless and got you thinking hard about how you might conduct yourself in a no-win situation, World Trad...

Stone takes one of the most tragic events of this century and focuses on the hope, humanity and determination that also held sway amid the darkness.

World Trade Center is Stone’s rehabilitation. It’s not just courage that’s honored, it’s God’s Will. It isn’t o...

Stone has concentrated on one of the catastrophe’s stories and has fashioned it well--with almost palpable physical detail, and with performa...

Despite my strong reservations, World Trade Center is strongly acted and has sequences of undeniable power. At its best it shares with Stone&rsquo...

The lack of stellar performances gradually becomes a virtue of the movie as we forget we’re watching actors in roles, and Stone builds a...

Although the conclusion is heavily sentimentalized, Stone finds the common ground Americans can rally around for relief from the devastation: We ar...

This square movie, at its best, is very powerful.

One reason World Trade Center is such a good, healing cry is that it absolves us of the discomfort of thinking about everything that has happe...

The script by Andrea Berloff is stunning in its simplicity and aching details.

Mr. Stone has taken a public tragedy and turned it into something at once genuinely stirring and terribly sad. His film offers both a harrowing ret...

World Trade Center is Stone’s most potent motion picture since «Platoon," and may be the most accessible across-the-board since «Wall St...

Stone slyly sneaks virtuoso moments into his story, bringing a modest elegance to a script that frequently feels creakily old-fashioned.

World Trade Center hits us where we live. And it reminds us how lucky we are to live, and love, and even struggle.

This is a film of terrific selectivity. By focusing on two of the few who did survive the collapse, the film achieves emotional power and an u...