Winterbottom tells the story in a similar docudrama vein: hand-held digital camera, a real feel and journalistic approach. There's an urgency in the way he shoots the restless Karachi streets.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 25, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2011

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2011

No preaching and no proselytizing. Just a horrible happening in a continually complicated world.

| Sep 30, 2010

[Jolie's] stunning performance is a career best and a powerful dedication to the strength and bravery of the real life Mariane Pearl.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 6, 2010

Torpid, faux-inspirational

| Aug 27, 2009

Knowing how this harrowing story played out in real life doesn't diminish its power in the slightest.

| Oct 18, 2008

The film would be nothing without Angelina Jolie's brave, powerful performance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 30, 2008

It is to director Michael Winterbottom's (24 Hour Party People, Welcome to Sarajevo) credit that he can achieve such a powerful film without bludgeoning his audience with the images of the unspeakable violence that were inherent in Pearl's last days.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 21, 2008

Angelina Jolie continues to prove her acting is worth more discussion than her personal life. It's not always fun to watch, but it's an important piece of work.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 3, 2008

British director Michael Winterbottom's film is as close to naturalism as one can get.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 28, 2008

When Mariane finds out about Daniel's death, she lets out a guttural scream; one that rivals Sean Penn's outburst in Mystic River in raw emotional defeat.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 18, 2007

... A Mighty Heart fails to do the story justice or to flesh out the heroic people involved.

| Nov 13, 2007

Absorbingly touching and terrifying, A Mighty Heart is an intimate film but has the gutsy and reflective ingredients of sorrow, introspection and outrage.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 7, 2007

Powerful docudrama is best for mature viewers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2007

A docudrama that is focused on Daniel Pearl's wife. While interesting in its own way, it does not begin to reflect on who Daniel Pearl really was or why he died.

| Oct 30, 2007

If A Mighty Heart was either a flat-out documentary or larger-scale movie version of the same story, it would be a lot more intriguing. But then again, neither of those would be a proper Angelina Jolie Oscar vehicle.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 20, 2007

We know how it will end, and that is what makes the suspense Winterbottom creates such an impressive feat.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 19, 2007

Although it is impossible to erase the spectre of Brangelina from your mind altogether while watching Jolie inhabit the role of Mariane Pearl, you can manage it for surprisingly long stretches at a time.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 19, 2007