War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
Media Education Foundation | Release Date: March 14, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Based on the book by syndicated columnist and savvy media watchdog Norman Solomon, who appears throughout as the main talking head, Earp and Alper's documentary shows just how the U.S. government coerces a nation into accepting the very idea of war, and it's a job it couldn't do without the full cooperation of the media. Read full review
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Village VoiceAaron Hillis
The doc is sobering, straightforward, and a bit drab, but to the participants' credit, it's also an entirely nonpartisan endeavor. Good luck telling that to the right once they hear the film is narrated by Sean Penn. Read full review
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VarietyDennis Harvey
Overlapping with other recent documentaries, picture nonetheless presents a stimulating argument. Read full review
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The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Unsubtle, condensed and bullet-point simple, “War Made Easy” avoids fancy visuals for a uniformly drab and dispiriting aesthetic. Sporadically narrated by Sean Penn (evincing all the personality of a potato), the movie is cinematically inert if ultimately persuasive. Read full review
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New York PostV.A. Musetto
Claiming that from Korea to Vietnam to Iraq, the US government has misled the public - and the media - on the reasons for going to war. Read full review
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