"A Mighty Heart.... It's almost a police procedural, with a focus on the
nuts and bolts of the investigation."
(National Public Radio)
"Angelina Jolie has always seemed larger than life.... 'A Mighty Heart'
changes all that.... Following closely Pearl's memoir, John Orloff's
screenplay unfolds like a police procedural."
(Newsweek)
"'A Mighty Heart' is a movie about knowing, understanding, and
commemorating.... So the movie's a police procedural, confusing ... and
at times dizzyingly effective."
(Boston Globe)
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"'A Mighty Heart,' ... a taut, meticulously crafted police procedural."
(Washington Post)
"... 'A Mighty Heart' is a precision-tooled Hollywood machine....
Structured like a police procedural ..."
(New York Times)
"... 'A Mighty Heart' is most accurately viewed as a kind of political
film noir, a tense and elaborate police procedural investigation ..."
(Los Angeles Times)
"... 'A Mighty Heart' sticks to the facts .... for the most part it's a
methodical police procedural as Pakistani and American authorities
mobilize to find him."
(Kansas City Star)
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"'A Mighty Heart,' which turns one of the more horrific chapters of
post-9/11 history into a tight, if a bit dry, police-procedural drama."
(Salt Lake Tribune)
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