New Won't Back Down movie list

New movie list Won't Back Down Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis play two determined mothers, one a teacher, who will stop at nothing to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children. This powerful story of parenthood, friendship and courage mirrors events that are making headlines daily. -- (C) 20th Century Fox PG Release Date Won't Back Down Sep 28, 2012 Wide
Actors For Won't Back Down
Maggie Gyllenhaal,Viola Davis,Lance Reddick,Oscar Isaac,Rosie Perez,Holly Hunter,Emily Alyn Lind,Dante Brown,Ving Rhames,Bill Nunn,Ned Eisenberg,Marianne Jean-Baptiste,Liza Colon-Zayas,Nancy Bach,Keith Flippen,Robert Haley,Lucia Forte,Sarab Kamoo,Teri Clark Linden,Joe Coyle
Genres Won't Back Down : Drama
User Ranting Won't Back Down : 3.5
User Percentage For Won't Back Down : 62 %
User Count Like for Won't Back Down : 14,186
All Critics Ranting For Won't Back Down : 5.1
All Critics Count For Won't Back Down : 78
All Critics Percentage For Won't Back Down : 33 %
Review For Won't Back Down
Social-issue movies can have real societal impact. That's why Won't Back Down, which presses a lot of hot buttons, deserves to be taken seriously, and criticized seriously, on its own terms. Peter Rainer-Christian Science Monitor Won't Back Down doesn't wholly make the grade. Bruce Demara-Toronto Star Americans desperately need to have some difficult conversations about the state of public education, but Won't Back Down goes about the task too awkwardly to be helpful or interesting. Connie Ogle-Miami Herald "Won't Back Down" details a bureaucratic process, and yet it plays more like an intense, emotional movie about parents and children. Mick LaSalle-San Francisco Chronicle So didactic that viewers are likely to feel less uplifted than lectured. Ann Hornaday-Washington Post The film makes a serious effort to present the other side's points. Kyle Smith-New York Post ... Gyllenhaal and Davis make a powerhouse team ... Jim Lane-Sacramento News & Review Divisive in its content but solid in its strong acting talent. Jackie K. Cooper-jackiekcooper.com It's not its anti-union take on the relevant issue, but the shallow treatment, cardboard characters, and overacting that bog down its well-intentioned message. Bruce Bennett-Spectrum (St. George, Utah) A lifeless film... The story is designed and decorated rather than told. Jeffrey M. Anderson-Las Vegas Weekly A lifeless film... the story is designed and decorated rather than told. Jeffrey M. Anderson-Combustible Celluloid Viewers will buy into the Erin Brockovich-style spunk Gyllenhaal provides, and Davis, an actor so emotional that even her nose cries on cue. It's not a bad movie, if you're inclined to be manipulated by impromptu romance and rousing changes of heart. Steve Persall-Tampa Bay Times It's a corporate-studio movie purporting that the working class needs to turn against their unions to survive. Jake Mulligan-Boston Phoenix With its melodramatic flourishes, simplistic black-and-white moralizing and general aura of studied manipulation, Won't Back Down is part of the problem rather than the solution. Ethan Alter-Television Without Pity It mixes attempts at realism and grit with transparently Hollywoodized good guys-vs.-bad guys social melodrama. That requires a deft directorial hand, but director Daniel Barnz doesn't seem to have it. Bilge Ebiri-Vulture Inspiring tale of a mom's quest to better her kid's school. Sandie Angulo Chen-Common Sense Media Preachy yet persuasive, appealing to desperate, often outraged parents who are deeply concerned about the obvious failure of the American public school system. Susan Granger-SSG Syndicate All films should aspire to manipulating their audiences. [this film] does just that, but with no subtlety and little genuine conflict or tension. Andrea Chase-Killer Movie Reviews Won't Back Down supports the idea of privatizing some schools. The concept is controversial but provokes interesting discussion. Unfortunately, it's done in a very bad movie. Gary Wolcott-Tri-City Herald These actors will, no doubt, survive to again give stellar performances - unless those dirty union bosses pull their SAG cards. Sean Means-Salt Lake Tribune an absolute fabricated work of fiction, hiding behind the label "Inspired by True Events" Kevin Carr-7M Pictures ... misses with its criticism of a wide-open target and is therefore is unlikely to inspire change. Todd Jorgenson-Cinemalogue.com Gyllenhaal and Davis are more than serviceable in their lead performances and appropriately never seem to be there just for the paycheck. Christopher Campbell-Film School Rejects A marriage made in hell between bad politics and bad art. Louis Proyect-rec.arts.movies.reviews The question isn't how such a ham-fisted, clichéd and, frankly, stupefyingly simple-minded film got made. The question is: How did it recruit such a talented cast into its union-bashing ranks? Jeff Meyers-Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Well-done, well-meaning but predictable, by-the-familiar-numbers drama about two working single mothers who go activist to buck the public-school bureaucracy and create a better learning institution for their own and other urban kids. Doris Toumarkine-Film Journal International