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      Redacted

      R Released Nov 16, 2007 1h 31m War Drama List
      44% 108 Reviews Tomatometer 45% 25,000+ Ratings Audience Score A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Feb 03 Buy Now

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      Despite DePalma's obvious commitment to the material and passion for the issues at hand, Redacted suffers from stereotypical characters and a forced faux-doc style.

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      Audience Member Interesting, perhaps in the way it was filmed, and maybe the unique crime scenario not really seen before in a film. This is DePalma branching out quite unsuccessfully, so, feel free to ignore this one. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Cartoon-like characters. Scans like it was devised by a group of angsty teenagers for a college media project. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member it would have been 4 stars but there are some minor quibbles as to how a director as accomplished as De Palma has managed to fail in appropriating verisimilitude (which was after all the main point in the way this film was made) in this innovative 'Hollywood' take of the kind of bullying action that can take place in a(n) (unjust) war such as Iraqi war. Depressing but nevertheless real. Worthy but I dont wanna see it again. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member 7/10 intersting approach Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member I figure sooner or later people will "get" this film. I just hope I'm still around so I can tell them I called it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Through a man's video journal, supposed to be his project for entering in a film school, and other amateur means, Brian de Palma shows the horrors brought by American in Iraq with the war by telling the story of the rape and murder of a teenage Iraqi girl. Though the film would have been a good protest against the American cause, the amateur like style he employs is sloppy and makes the whole thing hard to watch. It's not the first time De Palma's style becomes too overwhelming. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Joshua Rothkopf Time Out Rated: 2/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Rated: D+ Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle Rated: 3/5 Oct 18, 2008 Full Review Prairie Miller WBAI Radio Timeless and more relevant than ever in the face of permanent US war against the world, Redacted has prophetically conjured a parallel US war, targeting journalists and filmmakers. And in an ironic case of redacting the director and his film as well. Sep 10, 2013 Full Review Kelly Vance East Bay Express Brian De Palma's feature-length fictionalized polemic, Redacted, expresses its outrage with a ferocity that takes mainstream protest of the Iraq war into new territory. Apr 28, 2011 Full Review Fernando F. Croce CinePassion The director's concern is deeply felt, yet it is his old obsession, the camera's unreliability, that still engages him the most Aug 27, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A fictional documentary discusses the effects the Iraq war has had on soldiers and local people through interviews with members of an American military unit, the media, and local Iraqis.
      Director
      Brian De Palma
      Producer
      Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban
      Screenwriter
      Brian De Palma
      Distributor
      Magnolia Pictures
      Production Co
      HDNet, Film Farm Productions
      Rating
      R (Rape|Pervasive Language|Some Sexual References/Images|Strong Disturbing Violence)
      Genre
      War, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Nov 16, 2007, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Sep 6, 2016
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $65.1K
      Runtime
      1h 31m
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