The Cult of the Suicide Bomber
Release Date: June 2, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
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Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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6
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2
Negative:
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TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Baer asks all the right questions. Read full review
75
New York PostKyle Smith
A fascinating history of how blowing yourself up became a popular hobby in the Muslim world. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Given that fundamentalist faith and sober logic are irreconcilable enemies, though, Baer's analysis inevitably leads to a grim roadblock, at which he can do little more than tally the toll. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Augmenting Baer's interviews with various figures embroiled in the Middle East struggle, including members of Hamas and the Hezbollah, is chilling footage of actual attacks, much of it emanating from the terrorists themselves. Read full review
70
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
This is not the can't-we-get-along Arab-Persian world we see in most liberal nonfiction films, but a broader and helplessly apocalyptic view of an entire region crazed with anger, frustration, and bloodlust into objectifying death as a weapon, a cause for cosmic glory, and little else. Read full review
70
VarietyRonnie Scheib
Thoughtful, incisive, controversial. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Like so many political films of this type made for British television, this documentary contains more information than analysis, not to mention predictably spooky music. Read full review
50
The New YorkerDavid Denby
Near the end of the journey, chronicling Sunni car bombers in Iraq, he (Baer) talks sorrowfully of Muslims killing Muslims, and he concludes that suicide bombing has lost any coherent political meaning and has taken on an irresistible life of its own as a glamorous cult. Read full review
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