War Made Easy (2007)

Critic Reviews

• Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

  makes its timely arguments with passion and conviction.

• V.A. Musetto, New York Post

  Conventional and one-sided.

• Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

  War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death is a depressing look at political manipulation and news media compliance.

• Aaron Hillis, Village Voice

  The doc is sobering, straightforward, and a bit drab, but to the participants' credit, it's also an entirely nonpartisan endeavor.

• Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

  Makes a strong case that when it comes to military action, the American public has been deceived by presidents from Lyndon Johnson on down the line to the current occupant of the White House.

• Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  While the film is intensely skeptical of the power elite, it has a refreshing faith in democracy.

• Kam Williams, NewsBlaze

  Killing for peace as analagous to fornicating for virginity.

• Matthew Nestel, Boxoffice Magazine

  It's too top heavy and just not clean.

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  A hard-hitting documentary against the madness of war and the failure of journalists to speak truth to power.

• Ken Fox, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  At only 73 minutes, the documentary is nowhere as detailed as Solomon's invaluable book but see it anyway, and don't get fooled again.

• Louis Proyect, rec.arts.movies.reviews

  Penetrating study of how the news media allowed themselves to be used as war propagandists in the run-up to the war in Iraq.

• Kam Williams, NewsBlaze

  Killing for peace cleverly compared to fornicating for virginity.

• Eric Monder, Film Journal International

  War Made Easy contributes a significant argument and does a good enough job in a limited way.

• Mark R. Leeper, rec.arts.movies.reviews

  The arguments seem worth considering and the film makes for provocative viewing.

• Harvey S. Karten, Compuserve

  If you're a news junkie, you'll find nothing new: if not, this nicely-edited and eminently watchable doc will open your eyes.

• Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

  No distractions, no theatrics, no colorful personalities, just an efficiently produced documentary with a simple, direct and compelling argument.

• Brian Orndorf, eFilmCritic.com

  War Made Easy is an engrossing bit of finger-pointing, ushering in another fascinating shade to the world's current woes, not to mention a devastating portrait of fallacy that grows stronger by the gunshot.

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