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(1 - 50) of 51 OFCS Rating: 96% Fresh Page   12   > Next 4/5 "Obligatoria. Dura y capaz de tenernos con el estómago encogido en la butaca durante casi toda la película, se trata de una de esas que nadie debería perderse."   Cinenganos   Alex Ramirez 4/5 "Bigelow's gripping yet subtle study in the psychology of war is set to the urgent rhythms of a ticking bomb, exploding the myth of the maverick hero."   Film4   Anton Bitel 4/8 "This is Master of Suspense filmmaker crafted by someone who understands the nature of nail-biting thrills."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron 5/5 "A tough war picture in the tabloid journalist tradition of Sam Fuller, The Hurt Locker avoids most of the sentimentalizing and editorializing of other recent films about Iraq."   Kinetofilm   Brian Holcomb A- "Hurt Locker is a superb achievement that not only constructs some of the finest suspense set pieces of the year, but manages to find compelling, innovative wartime psychological threads to pull at as well."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 4/5 "understands the key element in modern warfare: chaos reigns supreme."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin A "The film supports the idea that extended exposure to certain kinds of experiences have the effect of either galvanizing a participant or breaking them, if they are fortunate enough to survive. In WWII, war was hell, in Viet Nam it was numbed by drugs, but"   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Unable to parse what he sees, James finds meaning, at last, in his misreading."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 68/100 "Bigelow displays a fine Hitchcockian skill set, but her politics are muddy-headed at best."   Apollo Guide   Dan Jardine 3/4 "...uncommonly taut and uniformly well acted..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair A- "A modern-day war classic."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz "The tension of life-and-death situations and of egos that need to cooperate to survive, is manifest in 'The Hurt Locker.'"   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit 2.5/4 "A raw and unnerving thriller that gets its impact from taut, intimate suspense scenes low on bombast and high on the potential costs of military duty."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman A "Bigelow has successfully built a vision of war rarely seen on screen, a visceral nearly first person perspective of war where the rush of combat is a welcomed relief."   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens 4/5 "Equivalente cinematográfico de una bomba de tiempo, la película luce como un thriller de suspenso extremo ambientado en la guerra de Irak. Adrenalina pura, sin cuestionamientos morales y con excelente elenco."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B+ "As tense and compelling an action drama as you're liable to see all year."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3.5/4 "One of the better Iraq war films ever made and quite honestly one of the best war films ever made..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. 3.5/4 "A coolly elegant kineticist, Kathryn Bigelow specializes in impressionistic phallus jostles."   Slant Magazine   Fernando F. Croce B+ "Less impressive as a whole than in its parts, it's still a provocative, well-crafted picture...one of the best films yet made about the Iraq War."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "A riveting Iraqi war film about three members of an Army bomb dismantling squad in Baghdad."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat B+ "Bigelow is a merciless director. [But screenwriter] Boal, despite his war-reporter background, turns out to be a sucker for schmaltz."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 3.5/4 "More than any recent movie, this has a 'you are there' feel to it that gives us a flavor of an Iraq we don't see on the nightly newscasts."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 4/4 "a visceral, heart-pounding experience that is easily the best film yet to made about the current war in Iraq and also one of the best war films of the past decade"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "The Hurt Locker looks and feels like a terrific action film, but there's a piece of art ticking away within it that goes off inside your head and your heart while you're watching."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 9/10 "[Bigelow] may have finally given the Iraq War its definitive identifying film."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 3/4 "What the great Kathryn's film accomplishes in its own starkly intelligent way, however, is to make the token war is hell argument, but through the filtered lens of a superior B action movie, her forte."   Bangitout.com   Jordan Hiller 4.5/5 "I found it difficult at times to remember that these men are actors. The tension is pulled to just the right tautness to be sustained over time without having to defuse it with a narrative break. And the acting is great."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 4/5 "Director Kathryn Bigelow, doing her run-’n’-gun best, doesn’t mine traditional suspense so much as impart a queasy feeling of monotony."   Time Out New York   Keith Uhlich 1.5/4.0 "Beautifully shot, well acted, and completely unfocused to the point of, well, what was the point? ... don't be fooled."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson A "...this is without a doubt director Kathryn Bigelow's best film to date, one which should be Oscar nominated in every category it's eligible for."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "Criticism that Bigelow and Boal's relentless focus on the feverish intensity of living with constant danger and the rush that comes from beating the odds is as misguided as reading the movie's "war is a drug" tagline as an endorsement: The Hurt Locker is"   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh B "The script's authenticity and director Kathryn Bigelow's cinema verité style pull us into the film with a mixture of awe and terror."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer 7/10 "The film opens with a quote from Chris Hedges saying that war is a drug. ... The film makes that quite clear, but I am not sure it says a whole lot more than that."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "[R]iveting but not 'exciting,' not in the sense that action movies have taught us to get turned on by the foreplay of countdowns and the climax of explosions..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 5/5 "It's too soon to pick the definitive film of the Iraq war, but when the time comes, The Hurt Locker will get serious consideration."   Mike Bracken's Horror Films   Mike Bracken A- "Harrowing and horrifying, The Hurt Locker delivers the visceral, heart-in-throat action goods, and in doing so, gets at more truths about Iraq than its preachy ... brethren."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 5/5 "Salta de uma seqüência a outra com fluidez, mantendo o espectador sempre inquieto graças aos obstáculos cada vez mais ameaçadores enfrentados por aqueles homens."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 5/5 ""The Hurt Locker" is not only one of the very best films of 2009, it is one of the very best and most exciting war movies of any kind to come along in a long time."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "A film that often makes us flinch from the screen, mainly because of a superbly layered performance by Renner."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/5 "Kathryn Bigelow has shown Hollywood how it's done: The Hurt Locker is the strongest and most satisfying thriller in years."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves "May be to the War on Terror what Apocalypse Now is to Vietnam, and it's almost as hallucinatory a vision."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick 4/4 "This is not just a character study. This film has battle scenes of such immediacy, intensity and suspense it puts the battle scenes in most other war movies to shame."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten A "This is a must see film."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 4/5 "With such an able cast and crew, director Kathryn Bigelow had everything she needed to come up with a defining war movie for the 21st century."   JWR   S. James Wegg 8/10 "Bigelow has taken the truism that "movies are life with the boring bits cut out" to the extreme..."   Playback:stl   Sarah Boslaugh "Bigelow's handheld camerawork roams like a spotter's eyes, always surveying, always getting another look..."   Seanax.com   Sean Axmaker 3/4 "There's a definite absence of Hollywood gloss in Bigelow's film, which was appreciated."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 8/10 "If you're looking for ferocious, visceral suspense, Kathryn Bigelow delivers with this graphic, subversive portrait of courage under fire, as adrenaline junkies get high on danger."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 8/10 "Extremely good whenever characters keep their mouths shut; when there's dialogue, it's usually heavy-handed and leading."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 50) of 51 OFCS Rating: 96% Fresh Page   12   > Next