| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

This mixed-up, self-important thriller is adapted by Richard Price from his own novel and wastes a talented cast.

| Jun 24, 2006

Moviemakers who exploit the suffering and death of children to ratchet up the dramatic stakes belong in the innermost circle of hell, but Freedomland -- clumsy and overwrought as it is -- earns the right to its harrowing trajectory.

| May 12, 2006

Flabby, dull and overlong, it's a B-grade movie with A-list talent and an inflated idea of its own importance. Think Tsotsi crossed with Clockers with the imagination of neither.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2006

This film just can't escape the feeling that it's loitering in an emergency zone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 4, 2006

Unfortunately, what the film is emblematic of is the Hollywood's utter detachment from the real world and actual current events.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 25, 2006

What begins as a familiar kind of media-circus melodrama ends up being something much more complex and tangled.

| Feb 23, 2006

A sometimes heavy-handed urban drama punctuated by some devastatingly effective scenes.

Full Review | Feb 21, 2006

The performances all around are lousy -- histrionic and turgid, a most lethal combination.

Full Review | Feb 21, 2006

The firm, steady presence of Karen Collucci (Falco), a leader of a volunteer group that looks for lost children gives a glimpse of what an interesting movie this could have been if it had not faltered under director Joe Roth's self-conscious ambitions.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Feb 19, 2006

Freedomland is, at best, a noble failure, which leaves the charred aftertaste of a burned opportunity.

Full Review | Feb 17, 2006

What saves Freedomland are the individual scenes and the interplay of people.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 17, 2006

Freedomland, -- is a jittery, overwrought drama that does all it can to vanquish the fine performances lurking within it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 17, 2006

Freedomland is a good idea that got out of control.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 17, 2006

Freedomland, the movie, doesn't flow at all. Joe Roth, who as a director makes an excellent producer, tries hard and you can see the effort throughout.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 17, 2006

Freedomland is the kind of dispiriting February botch that makes you wonder if mainstream Hollywood would be better off abandoning serious subjects to the world of specialized film.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 17, 2006

The film is dark and claustrophobic, and so confined in its location as to seem more like an adaptation of a play than a novel.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 17, 2006

It tries hard and means well. And I couldn't hardly wait for it to end. Freedomland falls short as entertainment.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 17, 2006

Situations that should have great emotional impact drag on into embarrassing shrillness; moments that are supposed to be heavy become leaden.

| Feb 17, 2006

Freedomland is not an opportunity denied, just squandered.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 17, 2006