Voices of Iraq Reviews

the resulting footage remains fascinating and refreshing in light of the usual media coverage that we are fed through our televisions

Full Review | Original Score: B-

As a true or accurate portrait of the real Iraq ... pic pales in comparison to various in-depth U.S. and European reports, and to Bahman Ghobadi's brilliant new drama on wartime Kurdish refugees, Turtles Can Fly.

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We don't get to stay with anyone long enough to feel the full power of their story, but a mosaic portrait of a diverse nation emerges.

Despite a good amount of balance allowing for the expression of some anti-American sentiment, Voices of Iraq comes down squarely on the side supporting the war in Iraq.

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It's an approach that even the war's harshest critics should find interesting.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

It's impossible to say if what the makers of this 'experimental documentary' have assembled is a representative sample of these home movies, but on balance it's vastly more flattering to the Bush administration than Fahrenheit 9/11 and its ilk.

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The lack of more than a handful of Iraqis decrying their personal losses and the chaos that has ensued makes it hard to trust the sincerity of the filmmakers.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Maybe my skepticism comes with the timing -- the movie arrives just days before the presidential election.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The goal of this documentary is to show what life is like for the everyday people of Iraq... and the result may surprise you.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

By turns heartbreaking, amusing and disturbing, the film features people from different regions, economic classes and religions, recounting stories that are sometimes bleak, sometimes encouraging, but always compelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

If Voices of Iraq cannot claim to represent the political 'truth' about the war, it certainly provides an unprecedented glimpse into the texture of daily life there.

Full Review | Original Score: 3

The movie conveys a sense of what it would be like to live in a place where bombs could drop next door.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

An extraordinary, up-to-the-minute tapestry that ranges all over this country of 25 million people and carries the force of revelation.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

A thought-provoking way to tell part of the present-day story of this war-torn country.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

Any film that credits itself as 'filmed and directed by the people of Iraq' deserves to be regarded with skepticism.

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