Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
Disinformation Company | Release Date: August 20, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
This documentary strives to fill the gap, and the result is memorable; viewing is mandatory. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
A smashingly effective documentary -- I found it more resonant than ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' -- yet to say that it's preaching to the converted would be generous; it's preaching to a microscopic sliver of the converted. Read full review
88
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
The result is a highly critical and impossible-to-dismiss examination of the administration's rush to war that is sure to move both sides of the political spectrum to apoplexy. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Greenwald has created a crisp historical document that is worth your time, even if the information in it was not worth the President's. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleJonathan Curiel
A thorough indictment of the Bush administration's focus on Iraq. Read full review
70
VarietyJay WeissBerg
A calm, rational and utterly devastating point-by-point analysis. Read full review
70
The New York TimesDave Kehr
Americans now want a rooting interest in their journalism, just as they do in their sports and entertainment. Mr. Moore knows how to give that to them, and so - in a much more dignified, documented way - does Mr. Greenwald. Read full review
70
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
A shorter version of which was shown last year in a series of house parties sponsored by the anti-Bush organizations MoveOn.org and the Center for American Progress -- Greenwald marshals dozens of impeccably credentialed witnesses to debunk the case made for going to war. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
While the arguments obviously will be digested differently according to the viewer's preconceived notions, the impressive credentials of the witnesses, most of them former insiders rather than mere pontificators, give their arguments an undeniable credibility. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
There are hopeful notes here. If you are looking for examples for America's finest hour, it's not our rush to start an optional war but rather that an anti-administration film like this can still be made and still be seen. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Most of the expert insights contained in this concise documentary are already available in the door-stopping exposes of other experts, a fact that lends the proceedings a nagging redundancy. Read full review
60
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Uncovered could easily come off as dull or strident, but the administration's arrogance and disregard for the safeguards and transparency necessary for democracy give the documentary an outraged charge that overshadows its staid execution. Read full review
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TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Ironically, as the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chas Freeman, puts it, Iraq has become what the Bush White House insisted it was at the very beginning, albeit for altogether different reasons: a battlefield in the war against terrorism. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Preaches most effectively to the converted. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
This hastily slapped-together festival of talking heads is so staid, one longs for some of Moore's look-at-me theatrics, and despite the movie's sober-citizen approach, it's no less one-sided than "Fahrenheit 9/11." Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
There is nothing new in Robert Greenwald's sobering doc. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
It gives the creeping sensation that this is going to be a talking-heads documentary, which Greenwald delivers in spades. Read full review
30
Village VoiceWard Harkavy
Moore created a movie; Greenwald gives us a cinematized blog. Read full review
25
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Greenwald does nothing with the interviews, basically just posting them, one after the other, with the hope that viewers will do his job for him. The result is one-sided and bone-dry. Read full review
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