The Messenger

Starring: Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Samantha Morton Review: If anyone asks you where the best and brightest new directors are coming from, point to Oren Moverman, whose vividly touching and vital debut feature signals the arrival of a filmmaker — he wrote the script with Alessandro Camon — who can bare the soul of a character with precision and healing compassion. The Messenger, showing humanity under siege, opens wounds inflicted by the Iraq War — not on the battlefield but in the hearts of the families of soldiers who never made it back home. It's the job of Capt. Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson in top form), of the Casualty Notification Office, to knock on the doors of wives, husbands and parents to deliver the worst kind of news. See Peter Travers review The Messenger on "At the... Rating: 3 Stars (link)