In the Valley of Elah

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'It is a powerful, muscular film, and there is real anger and fear at its heart.'
Read more » The Guardian
'Sometimes there is nothing more moving than pain held in check by reticence, and nobody does that better than Jones.'
Read more » The Independent
'Less satisfying is the film’s incorporation of its female characters – despite fine performances by both Charlize Theron as a police inspector and Susan Sarandon as Deerfield’s traumatised wife – which undermine the film’s subtextual interest in what is called ‘the crisis of paternity’'
Read more » TimeOut London
'powerful, downbeat drama with an anti-war message.'
Read more » BBC Films
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'Haggis’s superb script is multi-layered, a study of one man’s personal odyssey, but also a snapshot of a nation at a time of conflict that creates as many monsters as it crushes.'
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'Paul Haggis is making good films these days.'
Read more » Roger Ebert
'But however you judge the movie’s politics, and whatever its flaws, there is something inarguable, something irreducibly honest and right, about Mr. Jones’s performance.'
Read more » New York Times
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