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'Lions for Lambs' is Skeptical About the War on Terrornew
It's certainly didactic at times, like a college theme paper turned into an episode of West Wing. But the dialogue's sharp and incisive, and the acting's first-rate. And there's star charisma to burn, what with Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep and, of course, Redford himself along for the ride.
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'Lions for Lambs': From a Lofty Liberal Lecternnew
Dramatic is a quality that Lions never comes close to achieving. It's a ponderous creation of sentimental high-mindedness and stilted evasiveness.
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Getting Drafted in 'Lions for Lambs'new
In his first turn in the director's chair since the political minefield of The Legend of Bagger Vance(?!?!), Robert Redford joins the well-intentioned, liberal baby-boomer chorus with his uniquely astute reaction to the War on Terror, Lions for Lambs.
The Portland Mercury |
Zac Pennington |
11-08-2007 |
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Robert Redford Gets Preachynew
Amid the torrent of similarly opportunistic fare coming out of Hollywood this fall, Lions for Lambs is the singularly sanctimonious, heavy-handed and counterproductive of the lot.
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'Lions for Lambs': Six Characters in Search of Authoritynew
In the best directing of his career, Robert Redford explores national disunity with plenty of star power for backup.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-08-2007 |
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Quaint Chatsnew
Lions for Lambs features too many talking heads and not enough action.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
11-07-2007 |
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'Lions for Lambs' Offers Bumper-Sticker Platitudesnew
The next time Robert Redford decides to make a film about Iraq and the Bush administration, I really wish he'd run the script by me first. Or at least show it to Joe, the bum that hangs out in front of Starbucks. Or my cat Pearl. Because any of the above could easily have told him that this well intentioned muddle of mediocrity misses the mark by a mile and half.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
11-07-2007 |
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Robert Redford's Well-Meaning Movienew
This earnest film poses the questions that ought to be posed in this, the sixth year of the American occupation of Afghanistan -- about the responsibilities of leaders, educators, journalists, soldiers, and citizens. But this is canned theater of ideas, and the tin has made the mind grow rusty.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
11-07-2007 |
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'Lions for Lambs' is Years Behind the Times
Overtly pedantic and overstrained, Tom Cruise's first undertaking as co-head of United Artists is a politically top-heavy triptych of simultaneous political conversations made all the more cumbersome due to its extravagant cast.
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Robert Redford and the Facade of a Nationnew
Redford is once again traversing the chasm between the American dream and the American reality in a new film that meets the War on Terror and a grab bag of other sociopolitical issues head-on.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-02-2007 |
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