In the Valley of Elah (2008)

"May be jammed with ideas that don’t all connect, but Jones’ devastating performance makes this a compassionate and very human look at the Iraq conflict."

"Succeeds in putting dramatic form to the disquiet over US policy."

"Haggis's rhetoric and pacing are always sure-footed; unlike Crash, there is never a moment where anything rings false. It is a powerful, muscular film."

"A powerful, imperfect drama let down by the playground polemic of a country still sending its children to be slaughtered overseas."

"Pleasingly coherent, with cinematographer Roger Deakins giving a lonely, mournful aura to the seedy army bars, and lonely New Mexico backlots."