Redacted
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: November 16, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
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10
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4
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70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Anyone who sees the suffering faces of the victims in "Casualties" and "Redacted" knows that De Palma not only despairs over what he’s showing us but implicates his own medium--his own male gaze--in the crimes against nature. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett
De Palma's screenplay is outstanding, and he draws wonderfully naturalistic performances from his youthful cast. Read full review
70
The New YorkerDavid Denby
Redacted is hell to sit through, but I think De Palma is bravely trying to imagine his way inside an atrocity, and that he’s onto something powerful with his multisided approach. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneTasha Robinson
Like so many of his movies, Redacted is difficult to watch but queasily fascinating. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The result of the film is shocking, saddening and frustrating. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
He intercuts documentary sequences from a French news crew and also includes Arab website footage of insurgents and YouTube confessions from soldiers who witnessed a barbarous act, which we also see, involving the platoon and a young Iraqi girl. The concept is audacious but the actors are too theatrical. Read full review
70
TimeRichard Corliss
Redacted pretty successfully sustains a dual level of hysteria (in its content) and disinterest (in its film-long framing devices). It's an amazingly vigorous work for a filmmaker who turns 67 on Sept. 11... The movie is a cry of national shame; for De Palma, it's a new badge of honor for a wily old vet. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
The film is by turns strident, obvious, righteously angry and inspired. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle Smith
De Palma is extreme, visceral, usually in bad taste but almost always riveting. De Palma's Redacted, a no-budget fake documentary that imagines the circumstances behind a real rape and murder of a civilian girl committed by US troops in Iraq, is a piece of anti-war propaganda whose aims I don't agree with, but it jolted me nonetheless. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Love it, hate it, but be sure to watch it, because this odd and disturbing picture is as different as the war it reflects, and that difference is vast enough to seem profound. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Like "Lions for Lambs," Redacted is more significant in its sense of purpose than its uneven execution. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
It isn't elegiac, but enraged. It doesn't look back with sorrow, but forward in dread. And it's made with a clear intention - to stop the Iraq war. Read full review
67
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Under De Palma's cool disconnection is an anger, and it's this anger that drives his act of political theater. Read full review
75
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Redacted is a bristling act of protest that obliterates a target it isn't aiming for. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
As a manipulator of images and emotions, De Palma has few equals, and this is his most gripping film in at least a decade. Viewed simply as cinema and not as political rhetoric, it's often a kick in the guts -- even when it makes you roll your eyes. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Despite its shortcomings, Redacted is nevertheless a film brimming with spontaneity and fury, and in a season of often-ambiguous films about the war in Iraq, there is a lot to be said for this kind of combustible energy. Read full review
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