Stop-Loss

Back From Iraq, on a Road Going Nowhere

“Stop-Loss,”Kimberly Peirce’s long-awaited follow-up to “Boys Don’t Cry,” arrives in theaters in the wake of some dispiriting milestones. We have just marked the fifth anniversary of the United States-led invasion of Iraq and the 4,000th American military death since the war began. The level of violence appears to be creeping up again, and troop levels are likely to stay where they are, at least until the next president’s inauguration.
So in some ways, there is a grim, accidental timeliness in the release of “Stop-Loss,” which focuses on the ordeal of American soldiers in and out of combat. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (5942 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 28 Marzo 2008