Strong acting and sharply scripted characters are unable to disguise Redford's opinionated brand of current events, which often teeters dangerously close to Army recruitment.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 26, 2020

Easily one of Oscar season's more disappointing entries.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 14, 2020

Lions for Lambs, hits hard, hits home but doesn't quite hit it out of the park.

| Nov 14, 2019

A powerfully realized, sharply written think-piece.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

A film about engagement that fails utterly to engage? This may, in itself, be some kind of achievement, but who gives a stuff. I may now be even less engaged than I've ever been.

| Aug 23, 2018

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Pitched with utter sincerity and rigorously filmed sans complexity, energy, life

| Aug 27, 2009

The film's points are made obvious the first minute and then monotonously drilled ad nauseum the remaining 87.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 27, 2008

Slowly, you suffer the creeping realization that nothing is going to happen. Nothing.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 25, 2008

for the rest of us who think that a piece of cinema should be more than that, Lions for Lambs leaves us feeling empty rather than sparked by the zeitgeist the film attempts to capture.

| Jul 31, 2008

The absence of activists in the streets protesting the war in Iraq continues to confound; the empty seats at theaters showing Lions for Lambs will be somewhat easier to explain.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2008

Lions for Lambs reminds us of what Hollywood does best, when it wants to.

| Original Score: B | Apr 26, 2008

It attempts to conquer social, political and military all in the same film, but it doesn't knock any of them out of the park.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 4, 2008

For all of its good intentions and clear-eyed idealism, Lions for Lambs is not a movie, it is a political science lecture.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 28, 2008

It doesn't take a genius to know who is going to be sacrificed in this weak morality tale.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 21, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/6 | Jan 18, 2008

Redford is to be commended for making a film that dares to navigate the "theater of ideas," despite its flaws.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 2, 2008

Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers.

Full Review | Jan 2, 2008

The interwoven narrative strategy that gradually reveals hidden connections is so old hat at this point that it feels more hackneyed than revelatory, even in such highly concentrated form.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2007