Septem8er Tapes Reviews
Christian Science Monitor
The movie's heart is in the right place, but it looks and sounds regrettably bogus.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Top Critic
L.A. Weekly
While the documentary footage ... is powerful, it's often undermined by the fact that you know there is deep contrivance at work.
Film Freak Central
The film is a vile, thick reduction, making a 9/11 victim's last cries the catalyst for a dimwitted first-person shooter.
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| Original Score: 0/4
Pic's ace in the hole is its extremely authentic feel when it comes to the landscape of Afghanistan and the people and perils one might encounter there.
Filmcritic.com
a sad case of indie filmmakers who want to do something vital and lasting, but execute so poorly as to make their work merely forgettable
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Spirituality and Practice
Others pay the price for a macho man's posturing in this unflattering picture of American arrogance and lust for revenge.
Full Review | Original Score: 1/5
One Guy's Opinion
There's something deeply unseemly about this picture even though, within the limitations of the method, it's well executed.
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| Original Score: D
TheMovieChicks.com
There is a reason everyone is calling this The Osama Witch Project - it's pretty hard to swallow this one - no matter how 'true'.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Compuserve
A true original: a hybrid documentary-staged drama putting an American actor in war-torn Afghanistan.
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| Original Score: B+
Cinema Signals
Just when you think you have the "fiction game" figured out, the bullets start flying and the walls explode.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Film Threat
Tapes boasts some of the best filming seen in today's so-called 'dramatic documentaries,' but an unrefined script and frankly unbelievable ending keep it from becoming something better.
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| Original Score: 2/5
