The plot of "In the Valley of Elah" is a messy tangle that leads down several unexpected, unsatisfying roads and still doesn't leave us with any sort of overwhelming feeling -- not even confusion ...

Maps will tell you it's a world away, but the Valley of Elah is closer to home than you might think. Perhaps, as Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis suggests in his latest film, "In the Valley of ...

In his first directorial effort since the success of 2004’s masterful, already imitated, character connections movie Crash, Paul Haggis has decided to tackle the quagmire that is the Middle-East ...

In a study published in the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, researcher Sabine Kleiman argues that the biblical Rephaim Valley, traditionally located near Jerusalem, may instead lie ...

But In the Valley of Elah is not so much a whodunit as a whydunnit, an investigation of why a group of quite ordinary American soldiers would find themselves involved in such a brutal and ...

In the Valley of Elah, the first film Paul Haggis has written and directed since Crash, is exactly the sort of movie America needs right now — a lacerating, bone-deep inquiry into the war in ...