Iraq War Movie 'Stop-Loss' Does Its Best Not to Mention the War

Frank Masi

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More About

• Kimberly Peirce
• Ryan Phillippe
• Michael Moore
• War and Conflict
• Iraq War

Sincere without being especially memorable, Stop-Loss is undeniably some kind of achievement. Five years into Vietnam, American movies had scarcely begun to grapple with what was going on "over there"—at the same point in the Iraq campaign, they've already segued from reportage to outrage to something like contemplation. That may make Stop-Loss a necessary link in the bridge from Michael Moore to the eventual Iraq II equivalent of Three Kings. And for that, I salute it.

Stop-Loss was directed by Kimberly Peirce; written by Peirce and Mark Richard. Opens Fri. Countywide.