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Redacted

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Canada, United States · 2007
1h 30m
Director Brian De Palma
Starring Izzy Diaz, Rob Devaney, Ty Jones, Anas Wellman
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller, War

Loosely based on the real-life Mahmudiyah killings in Iraq, this fictional documentary uses video montages to follow the stories of the US soldiers involved and discuss the effects that the Iraq War had on soldiers and locals. Features interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.

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63

Chicago Tribune by

Like so many of his movies, Redacted is difficult to watch but queasily fascinating.

70

The New Yorker by David Denby

Redacted is hell to sit through, but I think De Palma is bravely trying to imagine his way inside an atrocity, and that he’s onto something powerful with his multisided approach.

70

New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein

Anyone who sees the suffering faces of the victims in "Casualties" and "Redacted" knows that De Palma not only despairs over what he’s showing us but implicates his own medium--his own male gaze--in the crimes against nature.

50

Variety by Derek Elley

Deeply felt but dramatically unconvincing "fictional documentary" -- inspired by the March 2006 rape and killings by U.S. troops in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad -- has almost nothing new to say about the Iraq situation and can't make up its mind about how to package its anger in an alternative cinematic form.

75

Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

He intercuts documentary sequences from a French news crew and also includes Arab website footage of insurgents and YouTube confessions from soldiers who witnessed a barbarous act, which we also see, involving the platoon and a young Iraqi girl. The concept is audacious but the actors are too theatrical.

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