Stone manages to give it a well-intentioned treatment that often honors the heroism of the rescuers, but its plot slowly collapses when it stretches out the episodes of familiar clichés and far-fetched sentimentality. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 11, 2024

Stone's work is thoroughly conformist and encourages various forms of backwardness.

| Feb 14, 2021

I can't recommend World Trade Center, but I will say I respect the effort. Still, I think the material deserved a better final product than the one that Stone has delivered.

| Nov 20, 2019

A simple, hauntingly devastating, yet finally optimistic experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Alas, [Oliver Stone's] approach to the events of 9/11 come from the most banal and disconcerting elements of Hollywood filmmaking

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 3, 2018

Admittedly, there are a few great shots... But, still, none of it says anything new. And it's just so sentimental.

| Aug 22, 2018

Does justice to this significant event in modern history by resisting the urge to deliver a final verdict on how or why it happened.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2018

I started crying when I was writing this review. It is a tough movie. You are going to cry, but I urge you to see it. And when was the last time you saw or read something that made you feel positive about the human race.

| Original Score: A | Jan 5, 2018

. . .after that big opening sequence, the sudden and disorienting shift in focus feels odd; the movie very quickly acquires the predictable feel of an episode of ER.

| Aug 18, 2017

A questioning artist neutering himself for the sake of uplift

| Aug 30, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

A tentative mixture of tearjerker and disaster movie, cautious due to the requirement that it bear witness to the true-life heroism, staying within the tonal range that is sanctioned for American films depicting 9/11.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 19, 2008

World Trade Center is not a great film. It barely passes as a good one. For a film that should have hollowed out its audience, I walked out strangely unmoved.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 28, 2008

For all its noble intent the film brings to celluloid life makes just about every fear anyone had about a Hollywood treatment of the 9/11 tragedy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2007

No particular reason to exist other than to garland itself with medals for telling an Uplifting True Story About Good Men.

| Original Score: C | Jul 23, 2007

A loving, respectful, much-deserved tribute.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

| Original Score: C | Apr 24, 2007

Stone rolls out the victim card minus historical context.

| Apr 22, 2007

It's 9/11 ingeniously structured as the basis of a Beckett play.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2007

An emotional and gripping two hours plus that rarely flags.

| Mar 1, 2007