Badland
Arcangelo Entertainment | Release Date: November 30, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
2
Negative:
5
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70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
It unflinchingly illuminates the toll exacted by the Iraq War in a raw, deeply personal and completely compelling manner. Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Says many things at once without much perspective or clarity. Read full review
50
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
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. Read full review
40
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. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Possibly the worst idea for a movie this century. Read full review
30
Village VoiceAaron Hillis
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. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Badland's only commercial potential lies in the possibility that people may confuse it for Terrence Malick's incomparable "Badlands." Read full review
12
New York PostKyle Smith
The year's dullest movie has arrived: the deeply silly Badland, which is as dead as winter and twice as long. Read full review
10
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Overlong, over-the-top dirge. Read full review
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