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Memorial Day

Memorial Day (2008)

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Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 5

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Average Rating: 2.8/5
User Ratings: 65

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Filmmaker Josh Fox offers a troubling look into the hearts and minds of American fighting men in this independent drama. Memorial Day opens with a bunch of college students and off-duty soldiers drinking and whooping it up at a beach party in Ocean City, MD, and as the liquor flows, the hijinks become less good-natured and more threatening until several women are raped by the men. We next catch up with the culprits when they're on patrol in Iraq, ferreting out insurgents and passing their spare

Unrated,

Drama

Josh Fox

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All Critics (12) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (11)

Yes, Memorial Day is as dumb and unwatchable as it sounds.

February 6, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Post
New York Post
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Rather than backing up the old chestnut about the banality of evil, Memorial Day does nothing but remind us that cinematic repetition inevitably robs immorality of its impact.

February 4, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out New York
Time Out New York
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Memorial Day moves from clever mock documentary to groan-inducing conceptualism.

February 4, 2009
New York Times
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Back in Iraq, the film's trite, unexamined spectacle of men and women behaving badly proceeds.

February 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Village Voice
Village Voice
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For all its visceral assaults and improv-ish aesthetics, in the end Memorial Day offers a conventional moral assessment.

February 6, 2009 Full Review Source: PopMatters
PopMatters

To simply show bad behavior is not to adequately critique it.

February 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine

Most of the last hour of Memorial Day feels like a retread at least, and horribly exploitative at worst.

February 5, 2009 Full Review Source: AV Club
AV Club

An often bland, repetitive and quite nauseating experience.

February 4, 2009 Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru
NYC Movie Guru

Fox's directorial debut is a strangely fascinating piece of misguided intentions, a crooked attempt to editorialize on the ugliest aspects of human nature gone awry.

February 4, 2009 Full Review Source: New York Press
New York Press

Memorial Day sets up the party zone as a moral equivalent to the war zone, hammers that connection home and then stops-content with offering an equation in lieu of an argument

February 4, 2009 Full Review Source: SpoutBlog
SpoutBlog

Unpleasant concoction attempting to link soldiers on a drunken, sex-filled holiday beach leave with their horrific, sadistic behavior at an Abu Ghraib-like Iraqi prison is literally nauseating, no thanks to camerawork gone wild.

February 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

Audience Reviews for Memorial Day

Generally, the story is interesting, but there are too many slow patches. Val Kilmer does a good job. The writing is decent but lacks punch, there should be more excitement in the film.
March 22, 2009
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