redacted
Kel O'Neill, Ty Jones, Daniel Stewart Sherman
A fictional story inspired by true events, "Redacted" will force viewers to reconsider the filters through which we see and accept events in our world, the power of the mediated image and how presenta...( read more
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DVD Released: February 19, 2008
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April 13, 2009During the whole movie you feel that De Palma is dragging the obligation of making THE great film about the conflict in Iraq. The result is poor, annoying and striped of the last remaining ounces of imagination this director once had.
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November 5, 2008Redacted is an interesting and well intentioned film, even if it is heavy handed.
This is a tough and unpleasant film to watch at times. Its style is unique and works quite well at times, while at others bogs the movie down.
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September 20, 2008Flashy production and faux multiple media sources don't make this feel authentic and the points about Iraq have been better made elsewhere (Battle for Haditha).
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August 24, 2008This just didnt flow very good and i just didnt like the movie. And hell i hate the war too but it felt forced and cliched.
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July 23, 2008What a futile effort to portray the truth by such a great director...
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June 19, 2009The first casualty of war is the truth, or so the trailers and the posters for Brian De Palma's controversial Iraq War drama, Redacted, claims.
I would have to say that, after watching the film in question, the first casualty of war is not the truth. It is art. This movie genera... ...( read more )
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November 21, 2007
Pete Hammond, Maxim
November 16, 2007
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Even at its most blatantly manipulative, Redacted provokes a response of rage, disgust and anger. De Palma strives to ignite passion, and while some of that passion may end up directed at the film its... full review
November 16, 2007
Kurt Loder, MTV
...this jumble of flat visual tones and wandering narrative focus leaves De Palma--a man who knows where to put an actual movie camera and how to dance it around in an often dazzling manner--in a crea... full review
November 16, 2007
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The result of the film is shocking, saddening and frustrating. full review
November 15, 2007
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Of all the war-themed pictures that have been released so far this fall, it stands apart, and it stands alone: Redacted is confrontational, rough, immediate and confounding. full review
November 15, 2007
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Brian De Palma's Redacted traffics in, and clearly means to provoke, strong, unbalanced emotions.
November 15, 2007
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
DePalma's movie offers its own doctoring and processing, without delivering an ounce of real humanity -- good or bad -- in the bargain. full review
November 12, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
Critics have called the movie crude and punishing. All right, the defense concedes all that, but the movie does a harrowing job of depicting the psychological toll of the occupation on both Iraqis and... full review
October 7, 2007
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
Feels like the work of a director so righteously angry and so pleased with his formal experimentation that he doesn't realize how painfully, inelegantly obvious he's being. full review
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