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

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

Aside from casting Jolie, the bravest decision was to shoot largely in Karachi. The risk pays dividends with highly evocative location work that allows you almost to the smell that crowded city and feel the chaos.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2007

A Pearl in the rough.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2007

Considering the fact that this is a story whose ghastly ending is known to the audience right from the outset, A Mighty Heart is far more compelling than ever seemed likely.

| Sep 21, 2007

The film opts to depict a single but reverberant tragedy and does so with force, skill and a memorable central performance.

| Sep 21, 2007

For all its kinetic energy and sweep, Michael Winterbottom's hyperactive new film is really nothing more than a very, very classy 온라인카지노추천 movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2007

A breathless and compelling cinematic experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 21, 2007

A solid, uncomfortable account of a wife's ordeal, with a strong turn from Jolie, but strangely lacking an emotional focus.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 21, 2007

Emotionally and viscerally compelling and retains a suspenseful, edge-of-the-seat quality.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 1, 2007

Michael Winterbottom presents a documentary-style chronicle of events that is completely unsentimental and at the same time full of compassion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2007

The only drama comes in the waiting, which eventually becomes tiresome.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 23, 2007

He [Winterbottom] approaches his subjects as very, very real, not just fodder for topical films.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 23, 2007

Winterbottom's gritty sensibility and feel for geopolitical realities is perfect for the film. There's no room for Hollywood gloss - and no need for it.

Full Review | Jun 23, 2007

Honesty and courage are the main virtues of A Mighty Heart, which strives to shed light on dark times. Central to it is Jolie's laudable performance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2007

This movie does not fully separate itself from our admittedly low -- even slightly shameful -- expectations, does not become the pure documentary it might perhaps better have been.

| Jun 22, 2007

Though it's difficult to watch, the film is nonetheless inspiring: a portrait of strength and character, through unimaginable difficulty, responding not with hatred but with hope.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 22, 2007