Review of Won't Back Down (2012) by Peter Debruge for Variety — 25 Sep 2012
Grossly oversimplifying the issue at hand, writer-director Daniel Barnz's disingenuous pot-stirrer plays to audiences' emotions rather than their intelligence, offering meaty roles for Maggie Gyllenhaal as a determined single mom, and Viola Davis as the good egg among a rotten batch of teachers, while reducing everyone else to cardboard characterizations.
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This review of Won't Back Down (2012) was written by Peter Debruge and published by Variety on 25 Sep 2012.
Won't Back Down has generally received mixed reviews.
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