[The]lack of focus on Pearl is what eventually makes me suspect that ... Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt shaped this story into a vanity production
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07/11/07
A Mighty Heart (2007)
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Reviews Counted:181
Fresh:139
Rotten:42
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Angelina Jolie conveys the full emotional range of a woman in a desperate situation in A Mighty Heart, an urgent yet tactful film about a difficult subject.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $9,093,521
Synopsis: Prolific director Michael Winterbottom (24-HOUR PARTY PEOPLE) takes an unusual turn by helming A MIGHTY HEART--a studio picture starring none other than Angelina Jolie. Jolie stars as Mariane... [More]
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan, Archie Panjabi
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Reviews for A Mighty Heart
41 - 60 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
The most interesting thing about A Mighty Heart is why it became a mediocre film.
07/10/07
a superb reminder of Jolie’s talents, and probably our first bonafide Oscar contender of the year.
07/08/07
'A Mighty Heart': Where's Daniel?
07/08/07
Too focused on events, timelines, and connections to find an emotional core to the story.
07/04/07
About a search and not a discovery; about the value of an individual life and the reality of multitudes.
06/30/07
It made me feel uncomfortable (almost itchy), craning my neck to look around obstructions in hopes of catching something hidden, possibly just out of frame.
06/30/07
A tough film grounded in modern foreign policy that puts a face on those who are collateral damage in this war on terror.
06/29/07
The best thing about it is the very thing that's most potentially maddening to moviegoers. Movies and TV offer US a steady diet of reductive emotional sensationalism but this one, like its protagonist, keeps a cool head even in horrific situations.
06/29/07
This is a filmmaker who respects his audience enough to let us decide for ourselves, and Jolie likewise shows us respect by playing Mariane without overblown affectation.
06/28/07
The signal achievement of A Mighty Heart, somewhat at odds with its affirmative title, is the sense it creates of universal complicity.
06/27/07
The movie does a good job of letting you know what it must feel like having a loved one held for ransom, then killed.
06/27/07
Blame the demands of a high-profile production on the sensibilities of someone who, success or failure, has at least never been this boring.
06/27/07
While the movie does indeed work as a thriller, it’s more the tale of a state of mind that is fierce and vigorous until it shatters into a million pieces.
06/27/07
Jolie delivers a performance that's astonishing in its control.... she's dialed down her natural histrionics and gone for something far quieter and deeper than expected.
06/26/07
A Mighty Heart is not a bad film, but it was made at a bad time.
06/26/07
A Mighty Heart is scrupulously journalistic, a would-be documentary that tells in rigorous detail but explains almost nothing. Who, what, when and where are covered, but not why.
06/25/07
A forthright and compelling film but Angelina Jolie has become so notable, I could never forget she was playing a role.
06/24/07
This mix of deeply subjective and starkly observational images, something of a signature for Winterbottom, makes A Mighty Heart a complex, disturbing film, and almost grants it release from its overwhelming star center.
06/24/07
Yes, Angelina Jolie is more than a tabloid headline. She also is a fine actress. She proves that here in "A Mighty Heart," a dramatic recreation of the events before and during the kidnapping and death of journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
06/24/07
Latest News for A Mighty Heart
January 29, 2009:
Screenwriter Set for Ian Fleming Biopic 
"Fleming," the Ian Fleming biopic being produced by Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way, has itself a writer: John Orloff, who penned "A Mighty Heart." More...
September 30, 2008:
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December 21, 2007:
Awards Mania: Spirits, SAGs Get Waivers, Announce Nominations; Uncertainty Surrounds Golden Globes
Just when you think awards season can't get any awards-ier, here come two more sets of nominations! More...
December 14, 2007:
Atonement, Control Lead London Film Critics Noms
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