Hollywoodgate

Name: Hollywoodgate
Genre: War, Documentary
Released: July 19, 2024
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 74

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Rolling Narratives | Release Date: July 19, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: Immediately after the US pullout from Afghanistan, Taliban forces occupied the Hollywood Gate complex, which is claimed to be a former CIA base in Kabul.

Genre(s): War, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 92 min

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The Playlist Christian Gallichio

Jul 3, 2024

Nash’at may have started the filmmaking process looking for something resembling humanity in the Taliban fighters, but what he found instead was a shocking level of resolve that we, and the US military, underestimated. Read full review

The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Jul 21, 2024

Suggests that the Taliban are engaged in an elaborate role-playing performance for which they’re unqualified. Read full review

The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Jul 3, 2024

All in, this is a brave piece of filmmaking that builds to a frightening climax: Nash’at creates an image of nervous ineptitude before pummeling you with the harshest of realities. Read full review

The Guardian Xan Brooks

Jul 3, 2024

While it would have been good to have Nash’at properly cross-examine these men, his film’s careful approach pays handsome dividends. Hollywoodate teases back a corner of the curtain to reveal a Taliban regime stitched awkwardly over the bones of US occupation. It shows us the soldiers pining for the caves where they once hid, and mourning the glorious death that has somehow been snatched from their grasp. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Aug 30, 2024

Hollywoodgate is a fascinatingly — and sometimes frustratingly — oblique portrait of a country and its people in the tragic grip of extremism. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Jul 19, 2024

It’s a film that feels like an overture to an international crisis, a warning as much as a documentary. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jul 18, 2024

The frustration of Hollywoodgate is that it could only ever feel incomplete. Read full review

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