Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
A straightforward and entirely commendable story about the triumph of the human spirit, etc.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
For Jolie, it's all about the suffering, without much meaning.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
What the movie ends up in desperate need of is a sense of life made real and palpable through dreadful, transporting details, not a life embalmed in hagiographic awe.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
A bit embalmed in its own nobility, it's an extraordinary story told in dutiful, unexceptional terms, the passionate commitment of all involved rarely achieving gut-level impact.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
The film boasts both sheen and efficiency without always delivering an equivalent emotional impact. It's easier to be awed or impressed by it than moved.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
Jolie is more fixated on gore than grace. In making us feel every crushing blow - the better to burnish her reputation as a serious director - we're shortchanged on the beauty of Zamperini's story

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
It's moving, admirable, and occasionally exhilarating. What it's missing is the one thing that could always be counted on with Jolie as a star: the spark of danger.

Name : Randy Myers / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
Given its subject, it should have been great, but it turns out to be simply good.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
Zamperini's life story is genuinely inspirational, but the movie seems fashioned as a standard-issue profile in courage.

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
Jolie hasn't done a disservice to Zamperini's life, but it's hard to know what she was trying to tell. It's Zamperini's story in fact and circumstance, but somehow, he feels like an enigma.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
Jolie gets the dirty/ennobling job done.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Though O'Connell's vulnerable lead performance is terrific, Unbroken's unrestrained hero worship undermines the story.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
"Unbroken" is a rousing old-fashioned yarn with numerous exciting set-pieces and an uncomplicated hero you root for all the way through. It's entertaining throughout and made with a high level of technical skill.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
If nothing else, it's certainly better than the last time a good-looking Hollywood star decided to direct a movie about WWII. But the less said about George Clooney's The Monuments Men, the better .

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
All the movie's tension comes down to whether Zamperini can withstand Watanabe's abuse, which is probably when it's helpful to forget the title.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
There's a lot to like about the movie. Its presentation is straightforward, chronicling Zamperini's amazing tale without flinching.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
If you can take it, "Unbroken" will lift you like the classics of adventure cinema.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Despite its many impressive elements, "Unbroken" plays incomplete and unbalanced.

Name : Cath Clarke / Alias : Time Out
Angelina Jolie's film as a director is a gorgeously shot and hardhitting old-school war drama - but still somehow fails to get under its subject's skin.

Name : Keith Uhlich / Alias : AV Club
Though Jolie is shooting for Christ-like passion and redemption, she only ends up slathering one man's very real, very morbid struggles in the usual reductive "greatest generation" sentiment.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Well-crafted and compelling, but director Angelina Jolie's best contribution was casting the unknown Miyavi in a pivotal role.

Name : Richard Corliss / Alias : TIME Magazine
Jolie has made a grand, solid movie of the Zamperini story, but O'Connell is the part of Unbroken that was truly worth the wait.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
A tale of endurance, "Unbroken" takes endurance to sit through.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
Handsome, alert and intensely focused, little-known English actor Jack O'Connell is a fine choice as Louis. And Japanese pop star Takamasa "Miyavi" Ishihara shines as "The Bird,' Louis' sadistic captor and war criminal in training.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
As a castaway story, a historical drama and a portrait of an Olympian turned soldier, "Unbroken" is a touching and important work.

Name : Connie Ogle / Alias : Miami Herald
The bigger problem is that neither Jolie nor the script bothers to flesh Louis out as a fully formed person with faults and fears and regrets, which keeps the film from ever capturing you emotionally.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
This will be a tough film for some to take. But it also has strong appeal as an extraordinary survival story, and Laura Hillenbrand's first-rate book that inspired it has not been on the best-seller lists for four years for nothing.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
This passion project for Angelina Jolie shines with her abiding love for Louis Zamperini and his courage under fire. In honoring Louis' endurance, she does herself proud.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
A good 45 minutes of the movie consists of showing Louis getting beaten up, then healing; getting beaten up, then healing, over and over.

Name : Michael O'Sullivan / Alias : Washington Post
The truest testament to the film's strength is the degree to which it all but achieves greatness.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
One of the finest achievements of the 2014 film year.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
It is a harrowing journey, and an inspirational one. But, as director, Jolie takes far too long to tell it, particularly in such a conventional manner.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
This great, tough-skinned movie can stand with the muscular action dramas that are a crucial part of American movie canon.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
"Unbroken" makes for a grueling experience, which is not quite the same as a memorable one.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
A beautifully shot, well-acted, and worthy-to-a-fault Second World War survivor story that only intermittently achieves the kind of emotional impact for which it aims.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
"Unbroken" stirs a moviegoer by default; it's an astounding story of human endurance that has been brought a little too safely to the screen.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
More a series of similar events than a story, and lacks an underlying message except that torture hurts.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Richard Roeper.com
In a well-made, but one-note film.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
You find yourself happy that this film exists, but wishing it were better.

Name : David Hiltbrand / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Unbroken is a fitting title for this excruciating cinematic treatment of the flyboy's ordeal. It plays like an endless, unrelieved gauntlet of suffering, an onslaught untempered by grace or redemption.

Name : David Denby / Alias : New Yorker
An interminable, redundant, unnecessary epic devoted to suffering, suffering, suffering.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
Finish your popcorn early if you're going to "The Green Inferno," and save the bucket to barf in.

Name : Todd Gilchrist / Alias : TheWrap
A serviceable reintroduction to Roth's idiosyncratic brand of horror, but it fails to either offend or exhilarate, instead chronicling the misadventures of a group of student activists with more technical acuity than singularity.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The Green Inferno is less a riff on spaghetti splatter flicks like Cannibal Holocaust than a desperate-to-shock pastiche of guts and gore served with a wink to audiences with strong stomachs. You know who you are.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
The point is to feel something visceral, extreme. Eli Roth is extremely extreme. My head is off to him.

Name : Alison Willmore / Alias : BuzzFeed News
Any sense that the kids die because they never bothered to research the tribe they were trying to save is undermined by the movie's treatment of the natives as just as abstract.

Name : Inkoo Kang / Alias : TheWrap
Eli Roth's faux-smart, long-shelved, and exploitative-as-hell cannibal tale "The Green Inferno" is a remarkably perfect example of horror's unexamined white privilege.

Name : Martin Tsai / Alias : Los Angeles Times
The film is measured and executed effectively to satiate horror fans' bloodlust, yet its underlying messages are just so repugnant.

Name : Barry Hertz / Alias : Globe and Mail
Whatever criticism you want to throw at Roth, at least the director stays true to his singular, repulsive vision: His cannibals-gone-wild tale is a work of unrelenting and squishy terror.

Name : Geoff Berkshire / Alias : Variety
A project that boasts all the appeal (and aroma) of a carcass rotting in the rainforest.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
The movie is a revisiting of what is often called the cannibal subgenre, a vile strain of films in which Westerners encounter tribes in the jungle.

Name : Michael Ordona / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
"The Green Inferno" is a breezy college comedy. Until it's not. Then it's really, really not.

Name : Simon Abrams / Alias : RogerEbert.com
"The Green Inferno" is not exactly a feel-good film, but it gets a very particular job done.

Name : Katie Walsh / Alias : Tribune News Service
A flop of a horror film that overestimates gore for actual scares.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
A nasty treat for those with strong stomachs.

Name : Michael Nordine / Alias : Village Voice
The more brutal this becomes, the less anything other than blood and guts seems to matter. Just because watching every gory detail of a man getting torn limb from limb turns the stomach doesn't mean it quickens the pulse.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : NPR
The Green Inferno can easily be dismissed as juvenilia, both in its sneering rebuke of political correctness and in its zeal for unearthing a horror tradition that should have been laid to rest.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
The Green Inferno fancies itself a gory skewering of what Roth has repeatedly referred to as "slacktivism." But do his heroes/victims, who at one point put themselves directly in the line of fire, really qualify?