Lions for Lambs, Tom Cruise | CRUISE MISSILES Tom as a Senate Hawk
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CRUISE MISSILES Tom as a Senate Hawk
DVD Review

Lions for Lambs (2008)

EW's GRADE
B-

Details Release Date: Apr 08, 2008; DVD Release Date: Apr 08, 2008; Movie Rated: R; Genre: Drama; With: Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep; Distributor: MGM

In Lions for Lambs, when an irritated professor (Robert Redford) asks a student ''Why don't you care anymore?'' he uses politics to draw the undergrad out of a complacent stupor. Despite solid turns by Meryl Streep as a journalist who's sold her soul to a conglom, and Tom Cruise as a slick senator, director Redford's prosaic message — stop going through the motions! — prevents Lambs from being truly transformative. EXTRAS Commentary from the trio reveals their hearts were in the right place: ''It's about making the right choices,'' says Streep, ''but it also is about how easy it is not to make a choice at all.'' B-

Originally posted Apr 11, 2008 Published in issue #987 Apr 18, 2008 Order article reprints

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