Review: The Assault
Like Paul Greengrass' United 93, this film focuses on urgent action in tightly enclosed spaces, which also leads to an occasional lack of clarity when we're not sure what we're seeing.
Like Paul Greengrass' United 93, this film focuses on urgent action in tightly enclosed spaces, which also leads to an occasional lack of clarity when we're not sure what we're seeing.
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 11.09.2011
In late 2002, CIA officers at Guantanamo Bay reportedly rented the 1998 Roland Emmerich flick "Godzilla." The film had largely failed to engage the in...
Marshall Fine | Posted 06.06.2011
Hanna and her father live in a cabin near the Arctic Circle -- but their time there is about to come to an end. He's training her for a mission: to find her way to a certain address in Munich.
Katy Hall | Posted 05.25.2011
Will Miller find WMD in Iraq? Will American reconstruction efforts in Baghdad go as planned in the face of growing insurgency? Of course not, but there are enough frenetic firefights to maintain a satisfying level of suspense.
Melissa Berkelhammer | Posted 05.25.2011
If we all had an eighth day of the week to do whatever we wanted, how would we spend that time? What type of stories and visuals would we be drawn to...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011
After a twelve-year inquiry, the Lord Saville probe of the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" killings in Derry came to a climax yesterday afternoon with the release of his mammoth report.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
It took almost 40 years. And an investigation that took 12 years, cost $280 million and filled 5,000 pages. But now, at last, we know what happened on Bloody Sunday.
Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011
Said Faraj gives the film Green Zone verisimilitude from a very personal perspective. In this exclusive interview, we learn of a life that few outside of the Middle East have experienced.
Ellis Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
When right-wingers have nothing substantive to say, they play the Vice-Principal card and call you "immature." Such, we are told, is the new Paul Greengrass/Matt Damon action film The Green Zone.
James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011
Can Matt Damon's half-fiction set the benchmark for a popular history of the Iraq war? Ultimately what gives the Green Zone its credibility is that it avoids any simplistic idea that Iraq could have simply been "got right."
John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011
With the always raucous, spirited celebration of St. Patrick's Day on the near horizon here in New York City, my thoughts turn to the powerful mystique of Ireland, and the many outstanding films that reflect it.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
Green Zone is a movie which, given a stronger sense of purpose, might have recounted exactly those failings and shown in stark relief how we were hoodwinked into war.
Marshall Fine | Posted 04.05.2012