Unfortunately, any resonance is lost under a mountain of unimportant minutiae stealing air time and headspace.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 16, 2024

Ultimately, Ang Lee delivers a smart war film that offers a great deal of empathy to its social actors while still remaining critical of imperialist impulses in American culture.

| Nov 30, 2023

A somewhat engaging consideration of how different people view the idea of a soldier or war itself.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 9, 2022

Stripped of the tech wizardry, its an awkward moral maze with a lot to show but very little to say.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 21, 2022

The ... film alternately and regularly advances toward certain harsh truths and retreats from them. There are good, serious elements here.

| Feb 11, 2021

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is an attempt at a different kind of storytelling, but fails on many levels, with a contradictory message behind the surface.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 7, 2021

Left me empty and baffled -- probably not the best combination of feelings to have about a movie that is meant to inspire empathy and compassion.

| Apr 28, 2020

A bit clunky and corny, but sincerely intent on providing a realistic portrait of wartime causalities, both during and after battle.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2019

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk might well mark a significant step forward in the evolution of filmmaking. However, important is not necessarily the same as good and this movie, despite its best intentions, is ultimately just not very good.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 14, 2019

Ang Lee's most topical and "lifelike" film yet.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 6, 2019

In essence, a failed experiment.

| Original Score: D+ | Nov 5, 2018

Ang Lee's approach is too earnest in trying to make an emotionally resonant story without the rough edges the material demands.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 1, 2018

Ang Lee succeeds in bringing to the screen a perspective that, if not exactly new, is certainly affecting and emotionally meaningful.

| Aug 29, 2018

With "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," Ang Lee deems to make a poignant film, but it is bogged down by too many subplots, bad dialogue, and a general lack of cohesiveness.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 22, 2018

At times, Billy Lynn plumbs the right depths, at others it remains a simplistic, overemotional and boring eulogy...

| Jul 30, 2018

Leaving the actors aside, however, the real problem with the film is the way it is shot.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 3, 2018

The biggest takeaway from Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Long though is that Joe Alwyn, a British actor capable of astonishingly nailing a heavy southern drawl accent, just became a star in his debut performance

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2017

This one's effective in portions, but falls short of holding your undivided attention.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2017

An unstructured satire. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 25, 2017

For a movie that wants to be about the hidden wounds of war, Billy Lynn is long walk into a cold and disaffected room.

| Oct 17, 2017