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A hard-hitting documentary with imagery as powerful as its message, The Cave poses heartbreakingly urgent questions -- and leaves them for the viewer to answer.
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Release date: Oct 18, 2019
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It's still profoundly effective film-making, but feels less true. Dec 9, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's still profoundly effective film-making, but feels less true.
Kevin Maher
Like Ballour, it has a purpose: to focus the world's attention on the suffering of Syrian people. Dec 6, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Like Ballour, it has a purpose: to focus the world's attention on the suffering of Syrian people.
Cath Clarke
Manipulations in post-production slightly undermine material that is already dramatic enough. Dec 5, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Manipulations in post-production slightly undermine material that is already dramatic enough.
Matt Turner
A blistering documentary about death defiance in a war zone. Dec 4, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A blistering documentary about death defiance in a war zone.
Nigel Andrews
A profile in courage under fire, The Cave sometimes relieves its enervating tension with occasional MASH-like interludes of levity: a surprise birthday party, some bickering over rice recipes, thoughtful drags on cigarettes. Nov 27, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A profile in courage under fire, The Cave sometimes relieves its enervating tension with occasional MASH-like interludes of levity: a surprise birthday party, some bickering over rice recipes, thoughtful drags on cigarettes.
Joshua Rothkopf
It's no surprise the film won the People's Choice Documentary Award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Nov 3, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's no surprise the film won the People's Choice Documentary Award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
Brad Wheeler
This film is even more wrenching than "For Sama," but Amani Ballour is an unforgettable figure. Jan 24, 2020 | Full Review…
This film is even more wrenching than "For Sama," but Amani Ballour is an unforgettable figure.
Loren King
The brief glimpses above ground are haunting, such as the sight of a man (a restaurant worker? An average citizen?) running through the streets to bring a vat of soup to the hospital. He might as well be carrying a solitary torch of humanity. Jan 23, 2020 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
The brief glimpses above ground are haunting, such as the sight of a man (a restaurant worker? An average citizen?) running through the streets to bring a vat of soup to the hospital. He might as well be carrying a solitary torch of humanity.
Robert Horton
A human portrait of frontline heroics with moments of levity. Jan 21, 2020 | Full Review…
A human portrait of frontline heroics with moments of levity.
Michael J. Casey
More than a story of suffering, THE CAVE is ultimately a story of resilience. Jan 16, 2020 | Full Review…
More than a story of suffering, THE CAVE is ultimately a story of resilience.
Mina Takla
The grace of someone like Dr. Ballour and her colleagues is unquestioned, endlessly valuable and deserving of all the recognition in the world. What it is not is banal. Which is what "The Cave" comes dangerously close to making it. Jan 12, 2020 | Full Review…
The grace of someone like Dr. Ballour and her colleagues is unquestioned, endlessly valuable and deserving of all the recognition in the world. What it is not is banal. Which is what "The Cave" comes dangerously close to making it.
John Anderson
Director Feras Fayyad gives you the experience of the Syrian war up close and personal, through the experience of Dr. Amani Ballour. Dec 27, 2019 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Director Feras Fayyad gives you the experience of the Syrian war up close and personal, through the experience of Dr. Amani Ballour.
Sarah Boslaugh
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