Review: Angelina Jolie's 'Unbroken' Is A Respectful, But Sluggish & Draining …

And while Angelina Jolie's sophomore directorial debut “Unbroken” employs all these elements liberally, she often strains its uses, and this dutiful, curiously hollow picture cannot inspire much feeling outside of admiration for the man who endured While The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies rose back to No. 1 Friday with $15.7 million, Rob … Read more

Drescher: Angelina Jolie's 'Unbroken' misses subject's deep faith

A great true story is telescoped down to a merely good one in Unbroken. After a dynamite first half-hour, Angelina Jolie's accomplished second outing as a director slowly loses steam as it chronicles the inhuman dose of  This is the relentless, unflagging — and yet, never repetitive — pace of “Unbroken,” a moving, inspirational, slightly … Read more

Drescher: Angelina Jolie's 'Unbroken' misses subject's deep faith

Unbroken, the film, begins with the trouble-making son of Italian immigrants, chronicles his unlikely and meteoric rise to fame as an Olympian, displays some of the unspeakable horrors of war, and highlights the resilience and  Clarence Douglas (Stephen J. Douglas) and Harry Brooks (Spencer Lofranco) man their guns aboard a B-24 bomber in "Unbroken," a … Read more