66
Metascore
40 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90NewsweekDavid AnsenNewsweekDavid AnsenWorld Trade Center celebrates the ties that bind us, the bonds that keep us going, the goodness that stands as a rebuke to the horror of that day. Perhaps, in the future, the times will call for more challenging, or polemical, or subversive visions. Right now, it feels like the 9/11 movie we need.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThis is a film of terrific selectivity. By focusing on two of the few who did survive the collapse, the film achieves emotional power and an uplifting ending.
- 90TimeRichard SchickelTimeRichard SchickelVery simply, World Trade Center is a powerful movie experience, a hymn in plainsong that glorifies that which is best in the American spirit.
- 88New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsIt's as harrowing as moviegoing gets.
- 88ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliWorld Trade Center is Stone's most potent motion picture since "Platoon," and may be the most accessible across-the-board since "Wall Street."
- 75Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA scrupulous and honorable film. Yet it never comes close to being a revelatory one; it sentimentalizes more than it haunts.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversUndeniably affecting, but you leave it wanting more.
- 70VarietyBrian LowryVarietyBrian LowryWorld Trade Center yields lovely and touching moments but proves a slow-going, arduous movie experience.
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanWorld Trade Center is Stone's rehabilitation. It's not just courage that's honored, it's God's Will. It isn't only men who are saved, it's their families -- and their family values.
- 60New York Magazine (Vulture)New York Magazine (Vulture)A true story of courage and survival, yes. But viewing the destruction of the World Trade Center--in a film called World Trade Center--through this kind of prism represents a distinctly Hollywood brand of tunnel vision.