The Christian Sciene MonitorHollywood has never been the best arena to hash out policy debates. But social-issue movies can have real societal impact.
Entertainment WeeklyMost of the muckraking Hollywood movies we think of as classic tend to sketch their dramas inside very clean and satisfying ...
Hollywood ReporterThe hot-button issue of public school reform gets unsubtle treatment in this pedestrian and insultingly tendentious drama.
Film School RejectsGyllenhaal and Davis are more than serviceable in their lead performances and appropriately never seem to be there just for ...
Salon ArtsInept and bizarre ... a set of right-wing anti-union talking points disguised (with very limited success) as a mainstream mo...
Chicago Sun-TimesA film where typecasting and color-coding makes it easy to predict which characters are good or bad.
The New York TimesHowever you take its politics, the film upholds a dreary tradition of simplifying and sentimentalizing matters of serious so...
The Boston GlobeIt has the boilerplate urgency of a TV movie that has been blessed with a high-end cast.
Los Angeles TimesSo shamelessly manipulative and hopelessly bogus it will make you bite your tongue in regret and despair.
USA TodayEven terrific casting and a well-intentioned story don't add up to a wholehearted cinematic win.
San Francisco ChronicleWon't Back Down details a bureaucratic process, and yet it plays more like an intense, emotional movie about parents and chi...
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Partial Film Information
Director: Daniel Barnz
Writer: Brin Hill
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Oscar Isaac
Release: September 28, 2012
Writer: Brin Hill
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Oscar Isaac
Release: September 28, 2012
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