Review: Sean Penn’s ‘Flag Day’
“‘Flag Day’ refuses to ponder challenging ideas but still wants its viewers to be moved.”
“‘Flag Day’ refuses to ponder challenging ideas but still wants its viewers to be moved.”
“There has always been a conflict at play in Nicholson’s screen presence: between ‘Nicholson’ and ‘Jack.’ The desire to be taken seriously and the lure of the riotous Jack persona have always done battle across his decades of stardom.”
“Mortensen uses his body to display his characters’ essential tensions, as they ride the line between truth and lies, loyalty and betrayal, chaos and control.”
“A tiresome example of early 2000s prestige filmmaking, 21 Grams holds the impressions of grand gestures without any of the substance.”