After watching “Ladder 49,” you will never complain about moving to the side of the road to make room for a fire truck. The new movie is the most polished of recruiting films. But that doesn’t mean it ...

While Sept. 11 helped embellish the already heroic image of firefighters, "Ladder 49" doesn't owe any direct debt to such recent events. It plays, rather, like an old-fashioned, by-the-numbers drama ...

In the film, Joaquin stars as Jack Morrison, a fireman who begins to reassess the physical toll and low pay his high-risk job requires due to his wife and kids. Despite the encouragement of his mentor ...

TUCKED INTO the helmet actor Tim Guinee wore on the set of the firefighting movie “Ladder 49” was a picture of a legendary Fire Department captain who was among the 343 FDNY -heroes killed on 9/11.

Director Jay Russell’s edict on Ladder 49, his 9-11-inflected tribute to the workaday lives of firefighters, was to keep the blazes as furiously lifelike as possible. Visceral, pulsating and intensely ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. I don’t know when I’ve seen a movie so completely smug in its belief that its audience is on a par with Pavlov’s dogs. Ladder 49 ...

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