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September Tapes (2004)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:3
Rotten:10
Average Rating:4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Sep 24, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: An incredible achievement, SEPTEMBER TAPES chronicles one man's attempt to find notorious terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Don Larsen is the man responsible for the filming; an intrepid... [More]
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Reviews for September Tapes
1 - 14 (sorted by date)
Top CriticJohnston's rough-hewn handheld footage generates a sense of dread as a defining force behind the camera, more concrete than any onscreen images.
09/30/04
Top CriticAfghanistan shouldn't be used as a backdrop for some director's selfish attempt at provocation.
09/24/04
Top CriticThe film itself still feels faked, and its calculated exploitation of some real tragedies may be the most unbelievable thing of all.
09/24/04
Top CriticThe whole notion of exploiting a war and its victims to shoot a commercial feature is reprehensible.
09/24/04
Top CriticSquanders incredible verisimilitude by undercutting it with credibility-defying storytelling.
09/24/04
Top CriticCredit September Tapes with raising thorny questions about what forms of cinematic storytelling do justice to truth.
09/24/04
Top CriticEventually collapses under the weight of its no-budget arrogance, but it goes some interesting places beforehand.
09/24/04
Top CriticWar porn, an amateurish and incomprehensible mishmash of alleged fact and fiction.
09/24/04
Top CriticA hybrid, containing both fictional and real elements. As often happens with such efforts, the movie doesn't fully succeed in meeting the demands of either side of a complex equation.
09/24/04
Top CriticMaybe Mr. Johnston ... intended this to be a guessing game. But the method robs the real encounters of their power and, even more important, trivializes the subject.
09/23/04
Top CriticHerky-jerky ripsnorter.
09/23/04
Top CriticPic'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.
09/21/04
Top CriticLittle more than war porn.
09/09/04
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