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Genre :

Drama

Release Date :

July 30, 2010 (Limited)

MPAA Rating :

Director :

Ryan Williams

Starring :

Ryan O'Nan, America Ferrera, Melissa Leo, Wilmer Valderrama, Jason Ritter, June Diane Raphael, Evan Jones

REVIEWS RATE: Critics Readers Be the 1st!

“..predictably bad results..”

by Robert Koehler [Variety]

“..O'Nan's shy, precarious performance keeps you with him to the edge of the abyss..”

by Nick Pinkerton [Village Voice]

“..Never has a cold beer looked quite so enticing..”

by Jeannette Catsoulis [NY Times]

“..just one more run-of-the-mill veteran-struggling-to-adjust-to-civilian-life tale..”

by Andrew Schenker [Slant Magazine]

Review rate : B

“..Just another cost-of-war movie..”

by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly]

“..It's cloaked in an earnestness that suffocates..”

by Scott Tobias [NPR]

“..heavy-handed exposition, and truly hold the screen..”

by Sheri Linden [Los Angeles Times]

“..a worthy family melodrama for the Iraq War generation..”

by Steve Ramos [Boxoffice Magazine]

Review rate : D+

“..a painfully earnest drama..”

by Nathan Rabin [A.V. Club]

“..a gut-wrenching look at the human cost of war..”

by V.A. Musetto [NY Post]

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