Fighting for Life
Truly Indie | Release Date: March 7, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
If Fighting for Life is propaganda, it's the best kind, largely avoiding editorialization and instead focusing on simple human drama. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
These young men and women aren't in it for the money, or the glory; they only want to save lives and heal wounds. That's another kind of glory. Read full review
70
VarietyJohn Anderson
The only people who seem immune to the politics of the Iraq War are also at its epicenter: the doctors and nurses who mend and tend to the wounded, and who provide the heart and soul of Terry Sanders' Fighting for Life. Read full review
63
New York PostKyle Smith
The doctors and nurses who care for America's wounded troops on the battlefield and in hospitals get their due in Fighting for Life. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
There are some heartbreaking moments here, from the reactions of recent amputees to the tearful doctors and nurses trying hard to remain professional. And there is no question that Sanders has discovered a worthy subject. He just hasn't found the right way to approach it. Read full review
60
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
Some of the most upsetting images are from a century and a half ago: Mathew Brady photos of the Battle of Antietam during the Civil War, the conflict that gave birth to modern battlefield surgery. Read full review
60
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
Director Terry Sanders's goal of comprehensiveness and some bad sequencing prevents the film from achieving the ringing purity of John Huston's postwar doc "Let There Be Light." Read full review
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