World Trade Center (2006)
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Newsweek David Ansen
World Trade Center celebrates the ties that bind us, the bonds that keep us going, the goodness that stands as a rebuke to the horror of that day. Perhaps, in the future, the times will call for more challenging, or polemical, or subversive visions. Right now, it feels like the 9/11 movie we need.
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The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
This is a film of terrific selectivity. By focusing on two of the few who did survive the collapse, the film achieves emotional power and an uplifting ending.
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Time Richard Schickel
Very simply, World Trade Center is a powerful movie experience, a hymn in plainsong that glorifies that which is best in the American spirit.
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New York Daily News Jack Mathews
It's as harrowing as moviegoing gets.
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
World Trade Center is Stone's most potent motion picture since "Platoon," and may be the most accessible across-the-board since "Wall Street."
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A scrupulous and honorable film. Yet it never comes close to being a revelatory one; it sentimentalizes more than it haunts.
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Undeniably affecting, but you leave it wanting more.
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Variety Brian Lowry
World Trade Center yields lovely and touching moments but proves a slow-going, arduous movie experience.
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Village Voice J. Hoberman
World Trade Center is Stone's rehabilitation. It's not just courage that's honored, it's God's Will. It isn't only men who are saved, it's their families -- and their family values.
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New York Magazine (Vulture)
A true story of courage and survival, yes. But viewing the destruction of the World Trade Center--in a film called World Trade Center--through this kind of prism represents a distinctly Hollywood brand of tunnel vision.
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