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Flick Picks: Does ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ Exploit 9/11?

The Critics

In our weekly video feature ‘Flick Picks,’ The Daily Beast’s Ramin Setoodeh and Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers debate the new movies opening at a theater near you. See which films get a ‘Yes,’ ‘No,’ or ‘Maybe’ from our critics. This week: Does Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close exploit September 11? Plus, the martial-arts magic of Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire.

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

This weepie, based on the bestselling novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, was an Oscar frontrunner until the critics mauled it in limited release.

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