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The Wall

2017

Doug Liman

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John Cena. Voice: Laith Nakli

5.8

2,540

War In a remote corner of the Iraqi desert, two wounded U.S. soldiers (John Cena & Aaron Taylor-Johnson) are pinned down by an enemy sniper. As their assailant taunts them over the radio, the duo try to scramble to safety with only a crumbling stone wall as cover.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"'The Wall' succeeds because of Worrell’s words, which cleverly circumvent obvious plot holes"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"The excursion into quick, small-scale filmmaking by director Doug Liman possesses an intensely realized physicality, but tedium outweighs suspense by a very large margin"	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Panicked characters lead to impatient storytelling (...) But a super coherent sense of space and a vivid feel for the environment help 'The Wall' to remain upright o the end."	NEU
United States	Derek Smith Slant	"The film’s lackluster dialogue is mostly overshadowed by its unwavering commitment to grounding the story in the tangibility of Isaac’s physical experience (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"Too bad that, once the mission goes belly up, there’s little to puzzle over, except just how silly the movie will get."	NEG
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Mr. Liman answers the siren song of minimalism with gusto if not complete success (...) The vein-popping mood is ultimately more exhausting than exciting."	NEU
United States	A.A. Dowd AV Club	"'The Wall' hits its mark when trusting its action (...) Its words miss the mark."	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"An effective, albeit somewhat artificial, exercise in suspense (...) It’s adequately engaging if hard to be invested in a movie so smoothly and soullessly executed."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It’s a smart piece of work, and if it occasionally feels like the world’s best film-school project, that is part of its intelligent minimalism (...) An eerie, menacing film (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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