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Operation Filmmaker is a darkly funny, ironic tale of a cross-cultural exchange gone wrong.
All Critics (33) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (3)
If learning about other cultures shows that we're all basically alike, Operation Filmmaker is a reminder that foreign countries have their own share of nitwits, too. Jul 25, 2008 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
If learning about other cultures shows that we're all basically alike, Operation Filmmaker is a reminder that foreign countries have their own share of nitwits, too.
Mark Rahner
What might have been a vanity project emerges as a surprisingly complicated morality tale. Jun 30, 2008
What might have been a vanity project emerges as a surprisingly complicated morality tale.
Frank Scheck
Everyone here comes out smelling bad -- that's why the film's so good. Jun 20, 2008 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Everyone here comes out smelling bad -- that's why the film's so good.
Ty Burr
This gut punch of a documentary will knock you for a loop. Jun 13, 2008 | Rating: 3/4
This gut punch of a documentary will knock you for a loop.
Peter Travers
An exit strategy in Iraq? This self-aware study shows how hard it'll be. Jun 6, 2008 | Rating: A- | Full Review…
An exit strategy in Iraq? This self-aware study shows how hard it'll be.
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The whole film could be seen a metaphor for America's misadventures in Iraq: Schreiber and company came in expecting flowers and sweets from a grateful native, and wound up in a quagmire. Jun 6, 2008 | Rating: B+
The whole film could be seen a metaphor for America's misadventures in Iraq: Schreiber and company came in expecting flowers and sweets from a grateful native, and wound up in a quagmire.
Scott Tobias
An outrageous, fascinating study of the Hollywoodization of one man in progress. Jul 12, 2016 | Full Review…
An outrageous, fascinating study of the Hollywoodization of one man in progress.
Tara Thorne
What the film really spotlights is a cultural clash violently, awkwardly resisting the tenuous unifying powers of art. The Westerners -- including Davenport -- see in Muthana the protagonist. Feb 17, 2014 | Full Review…
What the film really spotlights is a cultural clash violently, awkwardly resisting the tenuous unifying powers of art. The Westerners -- including Davenport -- see in Muthana the protagonist.
Michael Joshua Rowin
Nina Davenport's unapologetically cunning doc exceeds the sum of its parts to become almost unmanageably allegorical and even an indictment of its own shock-and-awe premise. Aug 24, 2009
Nina Davenport's unapologetically cunning doc exceeds the sum of its parts to become almost unmanageably allegorical and even an indictment of its own shock-and-awe premise.
Rob Nelson
Particularly fascinating is the way in which it this documentary examines the filmmaker's relationship to the film's subject, and the role documentary filmmakers play in shaping their subjects' futures. Jun 27, 2009 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Particularly fascinating is the way in which it this documentary examines the filmmaker's relationship to the film's subject, and the role documentary filmmakers play in shaping their subjects' futures.
Jennifer Merin
Wickedly ironic and often moving. Apr 23, 2009 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Wickedly ironic and often moving.
Peter Keough
The antagonism between filmmaker and subject reminds us that reality is never a passive still life, but a volatile entity with its own ideas on how it is to be represented. Jul 24, 2008 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
The antagonism between filmmaker and subject reminds us that reality is never a passive still life, but a volatile entity with its own ideas on how it is to be represented.
Bill White
Fascinating doc on a fledgling filmmaker squandering opportunity and stranded by global politics.
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