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Lions for Lambs (2007)

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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 179
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 132

Despite its powerhouse cast, Lions for Lambs feels like a disjointed series of lectures, rather than a sharp narrative, and ends up falling flat.

Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 32

Despite its powerhouse cast, Lions for Lambs feels like a disjointed series of lectures, rather than a sharp narrative, and ends up falling flat.

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Movie Info

Robert Redford directs this dramatic tale of intersecting lives that weaves together the stories of an idealistic professor's attempts to inspire a privileged student, a former student of the teacher who is wounded behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, and a congressman whose interactions with a seasoned journalist reveal much about the man behind the public persona. Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, and Robert Redford star in a film scripted by Matthew Michael Carnahan. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

R, 1 hr. 32 min.

Drama

Directed By: Robert Redford

Written By: Matthew Michael Carnahan

In Theaters: Nov 9, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Apr 8, 2008

Box Office:$15.0M

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Cast

Robert Redford
Dr. Stephen Malley
Meryl Streep
Janine Roth
Tom Cruise
Sen. Jasper Irving
Michael Pe�a
Ernest Rodriguez
Andrew Garfield
Todd Hayes
Peter Berg
Wirey Pink
Kevin Dunn
Howard
Derek Luke
Arian Finch
Christopher Carley

Critic Reviews for Lions for Lambs

All Critics (187) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (134) | DVD (8)

It means to use the Cruise-Redford-Streep star power to get us talking about things we ought to be talking about.

November 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Film.com

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Jonathan F. Richards

Film.com

Top Critic

The film is built not upon characters and plot but upon ideas. That would be fine if the ideas were revolutionary or interesting, but they're fairly commonplace.

November 17, 2007 Full Review Source: ReelViews

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James Berardinelli

ReelViews

Top Critic

It's definitely flawed but I am recommending it.

November 12, 2007 Comment

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

There is much talk of paralysis in Robert Redford's what's-wrong-with-America movie Lions for Lambs, and there is a whole lot of the same in the movie itself.

November 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

Top Critic

Though these dialogues are worthy, the medium doesn't seem right for the message.

November 9, 2007 Full Review Source: USA Today

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Claudia Puig

USA Today

Top Critic

Lions for Lambs appears to have been created by someone who's never seen one of these newfangled contraptions called 'movies,' or for that matter, witnessed that phenomenon known as 'speech.'

November 9, 2007 Full Review Source: Slate

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Dana Stevens

Slate

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Pitched with utter sincerity and rigorously filmed sans complexity, energy, life

August 27, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Lions for Lambs is movie mutton.

February 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Fayetteville Free Weekly

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Tony Macklin

Fayetteville Free Weekly

The film's points are made obvious the first minute and then monotonously drilled ad nauseum the remaining 87.

December 27, 2008 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Slowly, you suffer the creeping realization that nothing is going to happen. Nothing.

August 25, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com

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Heather Huntington

ReelzChannel.com Source: ReelzChannel.com

for the rest of us who think that a piece of cinema should be more than that, Lions for Lambs leaves us feeling empty rather than sparked by the zeitgeist the film attempts to capture.

July 31, 2008 Full Review Source: Paste Magazine

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Sean Gandert

Paste Magazine

The absence of activists in the streets protesting the war in Iraq continues to confound; the empty seats at theaters showing Lions for Lambs will be somewhat easier to explain.

May 1, 2008 Full Review Source: MSNBC

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Alonso Duralde

MSNBC

Lions for Lambs reminds us of what Hollywood does best, when it wants to.

April 26, 2008 Full Review Source: Projection Booth

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Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

A simplistic, if well-intentioned, overindulgence in obviousms.

April 4, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze

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Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

It attempts to conquer social, political and military all in the same film, but it doesn't knock any of them out of the park.

March 4, 2008 Full Review Source: The Scorecard Review

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Jeff Bayer

The Scorecard Review

For all of its good intentions and clear-eyed idealism, Lions for Lambs is not a movie, it is a political science lecture.

February 28, 2008 Full Review Source: BrandonFibbs.com

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Brandon Fibbs

BrandonFibbs.com

It doesn't take a genius to know who is going to be sacrificed in this weak morality tale.

January 21, 2008 Full Review Source: Laramie Movie Scope

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Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

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The premise of the film is actually very interesting. It views the US war on terror from different parallel angles: a liberal reporter interviewing a republican senator (Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise), a university professor trying to get his student to become political again (Robert Redford and Andrew Spiderman

November 7, 2007

Jens S.

Super Reviewer

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Separate stories connected by a common theme telling a story from different perspectives made the movie relevant to political discussions about American policies and ideas of war. The movie also does the best job showing the price of war with the great lives sacrificed often for unjust reasons.

February 7, 2011

Thomas Johnston

Super Reviewer

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