
After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.... (Full plot summary below)
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After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.
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| CinemacyMorgan RojasThe script lacks the precise authenticity needed to give this film its staying power. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMonaghan is stronger still. This is a performance that deserves to be noticed. She is crushingly good. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayIn Myers’s capable hands, and with a powerful, vanity-free performance by Monaghan, Fort Bliss joins “Coming Home” and “The Best Years of Our Lives” as a movie deeply in sync, not just with the military characters it depicts, but also with the civilian world that awaits them with such confoundingly mixed messages. |
| Village VoiceMichael Nordine[Michelle Monaghan's] at her best as Army medic/staff sergeant Maggie Swann in writer-director Claudia Myers's Fort Bliss. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfLed by a moving performance from Michelle Monaghan, the film carries heaviness with sensitivity, more interested in the pains of post-service reentry than the usual pressures of a war zone. |
| SlateDana StevensMaggie’s agonizing zero-sum struggle to balance a life of military service and a steady relationship with her son feels fresh, raw, and real — even if the conflict it enacts is as old as the transition between The Iliad and The Odyssey, between the horrors of the battlefield and the difficult journey home. |
| AV ClubJesse HassengerA movie like Fort Bliss seems designed to keep her (Monaghan) in fighting shape, in case bigger productions realize that she can do more than kiss a famous co-star. |
| McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreFort Bliss is a solid tough-adjustment-coming-home melodrama built around a superb performance by Michelle Monaghan. |
| Examiner.comTravis HopsonThere aren't a lot of fireworks or surprises in Fort Bliss, but it's a well-told story that pays respect to our men and women in uniform. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMyers, whose background is in documentaries involving Afghanistan and Iraq War vets, is good at capturing the revealing, offhand moments in this story, but Maggie’s conflicts about motherhood and the military needed a greater psychological scope than this film provides. |