| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

A rather entertaining (if style-over-substance) portrait of insane illicitness.

| Original Score: B- | May 4, 2005

Pumped by a soundtrack of period South African funk and dance music, propelled by whiplash montage sequences and rubber-burning Burt Reynolds-issue getaways, Stander is the very definition of good, old-fashioned outlawry.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 3, 2004

Stander refuses to take a stand on its own subject matter.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 3, 2004

Has you in its grip from the beginning.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 20, 2004

Worth a look, thanks mostly to Mr. Jane's troubled swagger and Ms. Hughes' sharp eye.

| Original Score: B | Aug 19, 2004

Adds up to what is less a movie than an entertainingly episodic rap sheet.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 19, 2004

Stander attempts to pass itself off as a fast-paced caper picture doubling as a socially conscious apartheid drama but ends up equally unconvincing in both departments.

Full Review | Aug 13, 2004

[I]t is very smart about bank robberies.

Full Review | Aug 12, 2004

Maryland native Thomas Jane affects a very convincing South African accent for the title role in this compelling,exploitative true-life drama about a Johannesburg police captain turned bank robber.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 6, 2004

A second-rate action picture that's content to use apartheid as a colorful background.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 6, 2004

An exciting, hard-driving, fast-moving gangster picture and a sharp commentary on apartheid.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 5, 2004

This true story is an unsettling character study of a man self-destructively addicted to flouting authority.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2004

It's Jane, breaking out of pretty-boy roles in vacuous movies, who provides Stander its vortex of violent conflict and makes the film both kinetic and socially resonant.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 5, 2004

Directed by Bronwen Hughes ... with striking verve, Stander efficiently conveys the anarchic ironies of the situation.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 5, 2004

Hughes abandons the wealth-redistribution theme, morphing the movie into a mere buddy flick about amoral fugitives on the road.

| Aug 3, 2004

The action is great, the story line unpredictable, the ending satisfying.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 3, 2004

Be wary of any film that bookends a blistering portrait of social unrest with Skinemax-style sex scenes.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 8, 2004