Instead of showing us the real story, Emmerich thought his fictional character was was more interesting. I'd say that's pretty damn arrogant.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 2, 2021

It feels like Emmerich couldn't help but make his Stonewall a mashup of My Own Private Idaho and Independence Day.

| Feb 9, 2021

In this movie, the density of failure was approaching Showgirls levels.

| Apr 29, 2020

The worst part of the movie is the dialogue.

| Apr 29, 2020

Stonewall looks like a bargain-bin musical adaptation, not a tribute to a gay activism triumph.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Mar 4, 2019

The highly anticipated/dreaded foray into the birth of the contemporary gay rights movement from director Roland Emmerich reduces this watershed civil rights moment to a tepid coming-out fable.

| Aug 22, 2018

[Roland Emmerich's] heart's in the right place, but the director of "Independence Day" is perhaps not the best person to capture the gritty and multi-racial reality of street life, then or now.

| Feb 15, 2018

That such a canny manipulator of audiences could grind out a melodrama so grating and clichd is hard to imagine.

| Oct 11, 2017

Whatever else it should be, a big-screen movie about the contemporary landmark of the LGBT civil rights movement shouldn't be this lackluster.

| Sep 27, 2017

A wooden script, bad lines delivered by amateurish actors, bizarre plot choices, and a set that some have said bears less resemblance to Christopher Street circa 1969 than Sesame Street or the Land of Oz.

| Jul 13, 2017

It's a good time to see Stonewall, if only to confirm the fragility of human rights and how far society has come, at least within the LGBT community.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2016

...the execution is wholly wrong-headed.

| Original Score: 8/20 | Nov 10, 2016

Compared to a genuinely rousing gay-rights historical drama like Milk (2008), Stonewall falls considerably short.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2015

Stonewall is a movie about a pivotal moment in LGBT history as filtered through the perspective of a fictional hunk of Wonder Bread named Danny who steps off a bus from Indiana and right into a central role in the Christopher Street scene.

| Nov 10, 2015

Disappointing gay-rights drama has sex, language, violence.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 2, 2015

Despite the volatile subject matter, Stonewall is a rather bland rendering.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 30, 2015

Stonewall is such a cataclysmic disaster of a film that I'm surprised nobody has called FEMA yet to help with all the damage it's done to the GLBTQ+ community.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 28, 2015

The Stonewall Riots were a triumph for a marginalized community, but Emmerich fails to convey the significance of the event in any meaningful fashion. The subject matter deserves better, and so do we.

| Original Score: D | Sep 28, 2015

...spends an excruciatingly long time on a happily ever after coda (20+ minutes) about Danny and not enough of what followed after the riots.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 28, 2015

It's a high school play-ready version of the riots, a version more focused on outside characters and related inspiring lessons than even the riots themselves, and wears the rosest-colored glasses about the dynamics of the era in which it took place.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 27, 2015