The film got glowing reviews on Ebert and Roeper, all this positive reviews have created an interest in the film. I was skeptical at first about this film, the trialer just did not work for me at all--it felt to tv movie of the week.

In his latest ReelViews column, James Berardinelli wrote at the end of it that he just saw his first 4-star film of the year (his only one last year was Munich). He declined to name the movie until th review appeared, but it says that the review for United 93 is supposed to appear today or tomorrow.

Sounds like he's got a taste for historically romanticized political movies...

Hey c'mon now. He liked Munich. Maybe the tone of the film is different than the trailers have lead people to believe?

Yep, he gave it 4 stars. He gave out one last year (Munich) and one in 2004 (Maria Full of Grace). He's my favorite critic, so I'm def, def, def thinking good things about this one now.

Well he did give 4 stars to Die Hard, so he can't be all bad...

And Slant comes in with the obligatory negative review, as per usual....

The Slant review actually seems quite thoughtful...

This is at 95 on Metacritic right now with 7 reviews, for of which are 100s.

Oscars, anyone?

hope not.

Wow, that sounds awesome. I'm definately enticed.

Currently 92% RT Rating, 100% COTC. 11 Fresh, 1 Rotten (which is only Slant's inevitable negative review).

PEACE, Mike.

I honestly had the same reaction to the trailers for this film that I did for the A&E and Discovery versions: It all just seemed too much, too easy, and maybe just a little too soon.

But with these reviews (which I'm not entirely sure couldn't turn to a still positive but lower 70% or so by Friday), maybe they found a way around all that stuff.

I want to see it, definitely.

Which is only SLANT'S inevitable Negative Review??? Does SLANT'S Review not count because it was Negative and furthermore, will there be any Critics who actually judge this movie, critique this movie being fair and unbiased or are the events of 9/11 that sensitive to where giving this movie a bad review will offend people, particularly the families of the Victims???

Slants reviews shouldn't count for anything ever...

Why??

Too early? (I'm talking about the release date, heh... )


I know that last year we had Crash, but still...

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Because they hate everything.

That's not true - they liked last year's Crash, and gave 4 stars to the classic Blue Velvet, amongst many other movies.

It's often a sign of a failure of rationality in a debate, when one side starts to falsely attack a source of information, rather than the ideas presented within that source (qv: Al Jazeera and the documentary Control Room)...

They only like "artsy"/"auteur" films (and the occasional B-movie such as "Red Eye") ...

They gave Water three stars, and Three Times four stars! That's just from this past week.

I thought what they said was very true, especially the second paragraph. And then they completely lost me me on the last one. The reviewer just went stark crazy mad about funding and odnations and everyone's decided these people are only worth ten percent of opening weekend gross...First, that didn't technically make an ounce of sense. Family members probably weren't thinking along money lines to begin with, and had no hand in the decision making around funding and distribution. Secondly, not donating all the money from a movie has nothing to do with how much they valued (any of them) the flyers.

I just got through that Slant review... What a mess (and I'm not talking about the film). Some of their biggest complaints are the title change and how they're giving ONLY 10% of the film's opening weekend gross to the World Trade Center Memorial Fund, the latter supposedly implying that the filmmakers think the passengers are only 10% humans. Still, my favorite part was how they rant about how because they didn't get the approval of the hijacker's families the film isn't fair.

If its a great film, its a great film. We shouldnt discount it because someone might not agree with the politics of the movie.

And really, from what I have read of the reviews, it doesnt seem like it is going to be political.

Story seems crap on paper. I've like Greengrass, I mean how many other people here have actually seen Bloody Sunday?

I'm just not sold on the story of Flight 93.

would the introduction of snakes help?

Snakes would at least be more realistic.