Retrograde

Name: Retrograde
Genre: Documentary
Released: November 11, 2022
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 76

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Picturehouse | Release Date: November 11, 2022 | R

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Streams on Disney+ beginning December 9, 2022 and Hulu beginning December 11, 2022.

Summary: Matthew Heineman’s documentary captures the final nine months of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives: one of the last U.S. special operations forces units deployed there, a young Afghan general and his corps fighting to defend their homeland against all odds, and the civilians desperately attempting to flee asMatthew Heineman’s documentary captures the final nine months of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives: one of the last U.S. special operations forces units deployed there, a young Afghan general and his corps fighting to defend their homeland against all odds, and the civilians desperately attempting to flee as the country collapses and the Taliban take over. [Nat Geo]… Expand

Director: Matthew Heineman

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 94 min

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Katie Walsh

Nov 10, 2022

It’s the faces that stand out in Retrograde, a stylistic and thematic motif that offers an empathetic power to the film as well as an aching poignancy. Read full review

Liam Lacey

May 18, 2023

Led by Reisman’s deadpan, uningratiating performance, Retrograde is a funny, uncomfortable portrait of young millennial, struggling with her loss of status and clinging to the wreckage of her past aspirations. Read full review

The Film Stage Jordan Raup

Dec 1, 2022

Retrograde is a powerful reminder that conflict breeds conflict and enacting a plan trying to protect a certain group of people will always leave others neglected. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Nov 8, 2022

Retrograde is a handsome film, ironically, conveying a sense of the country that is at stake, and its people. And Heineman is smart to frame the story around a single individual, as he did in his fact-based drama about war correspondent Marie Colvin, “A Private War.” Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Dec 8, 2022

Retrograde is about many things, but it's really about the faces. The cameras linger on the faces, allowing the expressions of suffering, tension, nerves, and desperation, to take root. Read full review

IndieWire Emma Stefansky

Nov 10, 2022

To watch terror become desperation become despair is wrenching, more so because this puts names and faces to events the rest of us are fortunate enough to read about while sitting on our couches. Read full review

The Playlist Charles Bramesco

Nov 10, 2022

Heineman’s thesis that because leaving has gone so poorly, staying would’ve necessarily been better is incorrect at best, and disingenuous at worst. He wants to think structurally, aware that America can and does flatten other nations beneath our clumsy footfalls. He just can’t — or won’t — see the whole structure out of apparent fear that it’ll be too unflattering for all involved, including him, the army’s useful launderer of their image-sanitizing talking points. Read full review

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