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No End in Sight

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No End in Sight (2007)

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Reviews Counted:89

Fresh:84

Rotten:5

Average Rating:8.1/10

Consensus: Charles Ferguson's documentary provides a good summary of the decisions that led to the mess in post-war Iraq, and offers politically interested audiences something they'd been looking for: a lowdown on the decision making.

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Jul 27, 2007 Limited

Box Office: $1,250,100

Synopsis: The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale... The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003), as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. NO END IN SIGHT examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the insurgency a --© Magnolia Films [More]

Starring: Richard Armitage

Starring: Richard Armitage

Director: Charles Ferguson

Director: Charles Ferguson
Screenwriter: Charles Ferguson
Producer: Charles Ferguson, Jennie Amias, Audrey Marrs, Jessie Vogelson
Composer: Peter Nashiel
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

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will have you alternately slapping your forehead in stunned disbelief and shaking your head in disgust.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
07/31/07
Chris Barsanti
Chris Barsanti
Filmcritic.com

Essential viewing for any patriot.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
07/31/07
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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We need to hear the story again and again, for no amount of rage and disbelief can turn what the Bush Administration did into someone else’s problem.

Full Review Source: New Yorker | comment Comment
07/30/07
David Denby
David Denby
New Yorker
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Organized, concise and plain as day, "No End In Sight" is necessary viewing for audiences the world over.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment Comment
07/30/07
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

The most compelling and least partisan of all the Iraq documentaries.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
07/27/07
Jack Mathews
Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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The anger that fuels Ferguson's film is felt in nearly every frame.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
07/27/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A valuable summary of a variety of missteps that have led to the current debacle.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
07/27/07
Pam Grady
Pam Grady
Reel.com

Rehashes information you already knew and tries to inflate trivia into scandal.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment 13 Comments
07/27/07
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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No End in Sight offers an emphatic, well-supported answer to a question that has already begun to be mooted on television talk shows: Who lost Iraq?.

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07/27/07
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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A damning appraisal of America's handling of the Iraq war.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
07/27/07
Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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Want to kick start a drinking problem? Just give No End in Sight a look, and you're assured a cold, dark night ingesting anything nearby that will sooth the post-viewing depression.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
07/27/07
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
eFilmCritic.com

The larger picture presented here will likely be old news, although it will jab the memory and still will shock.

Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | comment Comment
07/26/07
Kent Turner
Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com

Its message should be dispassionately studied by anyone who presumes to care about the future of this country.

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07/26/07
Rob Vaux
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

Doesn't offer startlingly new information, [but] its calm, methodical presentation of the evidence is a solid contribution to...the American public's understanding.

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07/26/07
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

So No End In Sight is hardly another partisan anti-war doc. Instead, it's a cogent, often infuriating explication of how the execution of the war went awry.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
07/26/07
Noel Murray
Noel Murray
AV Club

It's a furious, if quietly stated, indictment of the president and all his men in the debacle that our adventure in Iraq has become.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
07/26/07
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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...words speak even louder than visual evidence in Charles Ferguson's lacerating analysis of America's occupation of Iraq.

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07/26/07
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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...his [Ferguson's] brilliant and riveting documentary about the Bush administration’s failures in Iraq, is at once the most devastating cinematic postmortem on America’s colossal blunder in the Middle East, and the most sober.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
07/26/07
Tim Grierson
Tim Grierson
L.A. Weekly

While this incriminating documentary makes a convincing case against the White House, it arrives a bit belatedly, at a juncture when John McCain is just about the only loyalist left still sipping the Bush Kool Aid.

Full Review Source: DallasBlack.com | comment Comment
07/26/07
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
DallasBlack.com

Ferguson's debut doc is a brilliant piece of investigative journalism.

Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | comment Comment
07/26/07
Edward Douglas
Edward Douglas
ComingSoon.net
 
 
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