For a few nerve-wracking days, the Boston terror attack shook America, yet eventually acted as a spiritual salve that showed the nation’s strength and ability to back a common cause.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 17, 2024

It’s an incredible true story that deserves to be told and Green allows his characters to do just that.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Green delivers his most accessible film to date, and nearly every beat of the film works as intended, even if we can occasionally see our heartstrings being pulled.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 17, 2022

Patty and Erin are pitted as opposites and uneasy adversaries throughout the movie.

| Original Score: C | Sep 23, 2021

Director David Gordon Green foregoes any pumped-up melodramatics and simply allows Gyllenhaal and Maslany to provide the story with the honest emotion it requires.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 18, 2021

Stronger shines when it shows the struggle Jeff went through to first accept and then to embrace his status as a symbol of Boston Strong...

| Aug 25, 2021

Jake Gyllenhaal is sure to bag awards with this moving, complex portrayal of a bomb victim...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 27, 2021

Works well when it lets go of the triumph of the human spirit angle and allows the characters to behave like people, not heroes.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 1, 2021

If you need one reason to see it, bet your hard earned cash on Gyllenhaal.

| Nov 10, 2020

Not a terrible film, but not a particularly amazing or memorable one either. It is definitely saved by its performances and occasional interesting cinematography/editing. A solid addition to a genre of film that I generally do not like.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 12, 2020

Gyllenhaal and Maslany are extraordinary playing two people trying desperately to connect on this new playing field.

| May 13, 2020

Stronger is a very standard affair: Every beat can be seen from a mile away.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 28, 2020

Talk about a winner! Jake Gyllenhaal's gritty, multifaceted Oscar-worthy performance gives us a realistic and profound sense of what it means to be a true hero.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 24, 2020

This is no shallow, feel-good story. Bauman finds his way forward, but the audience sees the experience isn't just hard, it's excruciating. Sometimes just choosing to get up another day is heroic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2019

It's a good film with many layers about someone like you and me who worked hard learning that when you think you can't, you can.

| Sep 20, 2019

It's filmmaking at its finest. [David Gordon] Green takes a seemingly uncinematic story and turns it into a poetic film that begs to be watched.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 5, 2019

There are actors and then there are stars, and in Stronger, Gyllenhaal shows why he falls into the latter category.

| Jul 28, 2019

Stronger never really grabs the audience emotionally, and later in the film, falls into a hurried, perfunctory redemption arc and its happy ending.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 26, 2019

The story is inspirational, but predictable. It is the talented actors who carry it to another level with their outstanding performances.

| Mar 9, 2019

Powerfully emotional and warmly funny, David Gordon Green's film is an upper-tier biopic anchored by a really terrific central performance from Gyllenhaal.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2019