Entries tagged “Channing Tatum”
SXSW 2008: "Stop-Loss."
By Alison Willmore on 03/18/2008
Filed under: Festivals, Reviews"Stop-Loss," Kimberly Peirce's first film since 1999's "Boys Don't Cry," tears itself into tortured pieces trying to be an impossible combination of things — an Iraq War film for the MTV crowd; Serious Cinema that's also a goggle-eyed aesthetic appreciation of Channing Tatum's hot bod, Ryan Phillippe's pretty face and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's expert broodiness; a celebration of the troops' badassery that doesn't condone their actions against collateral citizens; an issue flick that nevertheless sometimes earnestly recalls "Top Gun." Peirce's younger brother enlisted and went to Iraq, and she's reverent of the choice, which puts her in a bind — "Stop-Loss,"... MORE »
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