Sand Castle
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): April 21, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
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Mixed or average reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Mixed:
4
Negative:
2
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The Film StageJared MobarakApr 26, 2017
Roessner hasn’t written an anti-war or pro-war film. Sand Castle merely shows the honesty of war’s infinite complexities. Read full review
60
EmpireJohn NugentApr 24, 2017
Sand Castle does a respectable job of depicting a wretched conflict that none of its participants wanted, but its reason for being feels a little built on sand. Read full review
50
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoApr 20, 2017
Sand Castle is an Iraq war story about certain futility, but there's a certain redundancy to political overtones that preach what we've been hearing all along. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 18, 2017
A combat movie that’s as generic as they come. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyApr 18, 2017
It’s a stale, phony, grunt-level sort of view of American intervention, cast in large part with Brits and shot in the familiar desert backlots of Jordan, which has stood in for the site of one Middle Eastern conflict after another since "Lawrence Of Arabia." Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoApr 21, 2017
Fernando Coimbra’s Sand Castle offers too little to the War is Hell genre to be noteworthy. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDerek SmithApr 17, 2017
Unwittingly perhaps, the film reveals itself as a microcosm of America's foreign policy in the Middle East. Read full review
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