Saving the day is Harrelson's low-key, rooted performance, adding an unexpected layer of poignancy when things take a decidedly darker turn.

Full Review | Mar 10, 2010

The conviction in Harrelson's performance sells the movie -- he and his character are both unsung heroes who give their roles everything they've got.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 26, 2010

Stebbings is more interested in deconstructing heroism than creating a concrete world, sapping the movie of the immediacy it needs to come alive. For all its aspirations, the film never meshes into something cohesive or substantial.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 26, 2010

Likable but hardly memorable.

| Feb 25, 2010

The low-budget movie continually shifts from comic-book spoof to gritty crime story to mental-health drama, the inconsistent tone preventing it from ever fully working as one or another.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2010

Modest but likable effort is packaged in a straightforward style.

Full Review | Feb 23, 2010

Defendor is more a refreshment of a genre than a transcendence of it. But thanks to Harrelson, you'll be a believer.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 19, 2010

Stebbings fills Defendor with humorous bits, comic treats dropped in quickly and without fanfare. It gives the movie a proper pace, well punctuated with laughs at the right time, and outrage and sympathy at others.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 19, 2010