Redacted
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: November 16, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
52
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
10
Negative:
4
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60
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Brian De Palma's Redacted doesn't quite work as a movie. But it works as SOMETHING. Read full review
60
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
The most authentic thing about Redacted is the rage with which it was made. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubNoel Murray
As an expression of from-the-gut anti-war rage, Redacted is admirable, but as art, it's undercooked. Read full review
50
VarietyDerek Elley
Deeply felt but dramatically unconvincing "fictional documentary" -- inspired by the March 2006 rape and killings by U.S. troops in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad -- has almost nothing new to say about the Iraq situation and can't make up its mind about how to package its anger in an alternative cinematic form. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
DePalma's movie offers its own doctoring and processing, without delivering an ounce of real humanity - good or bad - in the bargain. Read full review
50
PremiereGlenn Kenny
The problem here, which vitiates the picture's ingenuity and causes it, finally, to sink like a stone, is in the physical execution of the material. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
It shows rare courage in protesting the widespread abuse of innocent Iraqis, but its pseudodocumentary form is full of awkward misfires (such as a protracted use of theme music from Barry Lyndon) and its acting is often terrible. Read full review
40
NewsweekDavid Ansen
if you're trying to make us believe we're watching "reality" by using a faux documentary style, you need actors who never look like they are acting, and this is where Redacted stumbles. Read full review
40
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
Its formal novelty aside, Redacted rarely hits the audience with a genuine shock or a clarifying insight. It churns through a set of ideas and emotions that are confusing and unpleasant, to be sure, but also, by now, dispiritingly familiar. Read full review
40
EmpireIan Freer
De Palma is incapable of making a dull movie, but poor performances and a see-sawing tone make this an unsatisfying experience. Read full review
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