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Badland Review

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0.0

Dave White Profile

I love how dumb all the characters are. Read full review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 2.0
    30

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally unfavorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 10

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

    Overlong, over-the-top dirge.

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  • 30

    out of 100

    Village Voice

    Writer-director Francesco Lucente's overconfident, emotionally forced 160-minute opus offers trite antiwar platitudes--at best--in chronicling the anguished existence of a soldier who can't shake the horrors he experienced in Fallujah.

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  • 40

    out of 100

    Variety Robert Koehler

    A strenuously solemn film that wants to create some kind of American pastoral tragedy out of the nation's current angst with the war.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    The New York Times

    This overlong, mawkish yet weirdly mesmerizing film doesn't just invite identification with its tragically unhinged character; it compels it, by piling on biblically horrible misfortunes, weepy confessions and editorializing music.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

    It unflinchingly illuminates the toll exacted by the Iraq War in a raw, deeply personal and completely compelling manner.

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