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Unbroken

2014

Angelina Jolie

Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Takamasa Ishihara ...

6.3

18,691

Drama A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"This will be a tough film for some to take. But it also has strong appeal as an extraordinary survival story."	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"A bit embalmed in its own nobility, it's an extraordinary story told in dutiful, unexceptional terms, the passionate commitment of all involved rarely achieving gut-level impact."	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"Angelina Jolie's WW2 biopic (...) barely scratches the surface of an extraordinary life. (...) the film settles into a Forrest Gumpian groove that doesn’t glorify the human spirit so much as sap it. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"A polished, old school WWII survival story."	POS
United Kingdom	John Hazelton Screendaily	"While she [Jolie] mostly avoids POW movie cliches she doesn't find much to put in their place to explain Zamperini's fortitude."	NEU
United Kingdom	Andrew Pulver The Guardian	"Though high-minded and well-intentioned - as well as being conceived on an epic scale - there's something faintly stodgy and safety-first about the endeavour. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"A stirring, sweeping, and lacerating tale of one man's superhuman endurance."	POS
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"An interminable, redundant, unnecessary epic devoted to suffering, suffering, suffering (...) the movie feels derivative and short of ideas"	NEG

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