It may have good intentions and controversial subject matter, but it doesn't translate into an entertaining piece of cinema.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 24, 2020

Iraq war vets cope with big issues; not for kids.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 16, 2010

The war in Iraq gets a lathery soft soap treatment in producer-cum-director Irwin Winkler's distortion of emotions and realities associated with a group of returning soldiers.

| Original Score: D- | Apr 24, 2009

Obvious, plodding, cloying and politically innocuous.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2008

...there's certainly no denying the effectiveness of one unintentionally hilarious moment in which Biel's spurned boyfriend exclaims, "I guess it only takes one hand to push people away!"

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 9, 2007

Patriotic claptrap masquerading as a touchy-feely salute to the troops.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 8, 2007

While the film tries to be sensitive to the people's plight, it does itself (and the soldiers) a disservice by presenting them as brittle, emotionally fragile victims.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 25, 2007

Missed opportunity for some cutting irony on behalf of indigenous people who have always been the victims in one way or another, of dubious celebrations like Thanksgiving, the laborers are instead merely a dramatic device - wallpaper really.

| Oct 21, 2007

Shows some significant strengths but ultimately misses the mark due to incompletely developed characters and hesitation to hit home as hard as the subject matter justifies.

Full Review | Original Score: 68/100 | Oct 20, 2007

This is morose, head-shaking stuff, and director Irwin Winkler (Life as a House, De-Lovely) isn't one to ease up on the 'ol emotional manipulation button.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2007

It often undercuts its nobler goals by resorting to hammy dialogue and unnecessarily melodramatic contrivances.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 25, 2007

a clunky movie lacking subtlety, and full of bad dialogue that tries too hard to get its point across.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 10, 2007

I must say the best thing about the movie is that it's interested in the soldiers, not the self-serving popinjays who seem to think the war is a big fat career-enhancing photo opportunity. The people who got shot at deserve most of the attention.

| May 10, 2007

A laughably clichd, melodramatic, Oscar-courting prestige pic.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 25, 2007

Earnest but lazy, fitfully laughable and insulting, Home of the Brave is cowardly work.

| Original Score: 0/6 | Feb 3, 2007

The cast is certainly worthy and they are clearly committed to their roles, but unfortunately HOME OF THE BRAVE just misses the mark.

| Original Score: C | Jan 11, 2007

Sure, it's earnest -- sure, it's melodramatic. Yup, it's just barely this side of being a made-for-Lifetime 온라인카지노추천 soaper. But there's a mesmerizing power to this little film that comes from its sheer un-told-ness, from its right-now immediacy.

| Jan 2, 2007

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 30, 2006

[Director] Winkler clearly loves these characters, and if he sometimes pushes too hard in his effort to make the audience share his affection it's forgivable under the circumstances.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 30, 2006

Without question, an important, thought- and emotion-provoking film, certain to be controversial, and to be remembered.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 30, 2006