Metacritic Movie Ratings
Badland Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 70

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas

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

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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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• 40

  out of 100

  VarietyRobert 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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• 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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• 10

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen

  Overlong, over-the-top dirge.

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