Like other follow-ups to Oscar triumphs, Paul Haggis' military drama, In the Valley of Elah, seems more about sustaining prestige than earning new stripes. A glum, gloomy view of U.S. soldiers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Crash" director and co-writer Paul Haggis' first helming effort since that film won picture Oscar two years ago has not lit a fire at the box office -- less than $7 million so far -- but as long ...

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 ...

IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH (WB, 2007) D: Paul Haggis, w/ Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron. Rating: NNNN DVD package: NN. I’ve never seen a more bitter, frustrated and ultimately despairing movie.

The stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Jason Patric, Susan Sarandon, Josh Brolin, James Franco. The story: Vietnam vet Hank Deerfield (Jones) teams with a tough police detective (Theron) to ...

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 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 ...

Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon star in this war drama directed by Paul Haggis. Retired army veteran Hank Deerfield (Jones) sees his life turned upside down when his son goes ...