Great performances from the cast in this engrossing drama.

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

A disconcerting and challenging film. It leaves you wondering. How cool is that?

| Original Score: B | Oct 22, 2010

You can feel the movie's gears grinding throughout, first in the rote suspense mechanics and later in the ham-fisted religiosity (conveyed through an endless soundtrack of evangelistic talk radio).

| Oct 22, 2010

Mostly this is a tense, portentous, and provocative piece.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 22, 2010

Stone is that rare film that refuses to be easy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 22, 2010

An ambiguous film boasting a quartet of mesmerizing performances...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2010

In the end, this isn't a story so much about characters looking to the heavens as it is an examination of who we ourselves are as individuals, and while some won't like what they find that's still a mirror most of us could use looking into.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2010

Stone starts interesting, gets better, and then simply sits there until it ends with a whimper instead of a much-needed bang.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 15, 2010

If you're of a mind that actors as talented as Robert De Niro and Edward Norton could make even pedestrian material watchable, Stone puts your theory to the test. And surprise! They can.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2010

Ultimately Stone sags under its own overblown philosophical weight, with a strained and painfully obvious spiritual subtext finally smothering what could have been a simple, effective psychological thriller.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 15, 2010

It presents us with four characters who are fascinating, specific and yet in some way unknowable, not like the usual characters in fiction but rather like people we might meet in life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2010

The movie wouldn't work as well as it does without the impressive support they get from the film's leading ladies, Frances Conroy and Milla Jovovich, who act as catalysts for the explosive drama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2010

What looked like a juicily absurd film noir disguised as a generational acting battle is something closer to a dirge -- a dead-serious meditation on faith and grace, redemption and damnation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2010

Stone could have been some sort of a procedural, a straightforward crime movie, but it's too complex for that. It is actually interested in the minds of these characters, and how they react to a dangerous situation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2010

This is a film about people who are lost, and the filmmakers draw a direct line between their characters' existential wanderings and the religious obsessions they find for themselves.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Oct 8, 2010

[It ends] up subverting expectations by denying pleasure.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 8, 2010

Collaborations between Robert De Niro and Edward Norton--one generation's most respected actor paired with another's most affected--seem doomed to be defined by acting with a capital A.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 8, 2010

A movie steeped in sin that squats awkwardly in a cinematic purgatory between tawdry and talky.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 8, 2010

Moral ambiguity and ethical compromise are at the heart of this meandering prison drama, but at a certain point we simply don't care anymore who is base and baser.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 7, 2010

How Curran and his cast chew into it is often mesmerizing.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 7, 2010