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(1 - 50) of 51 OFCS Rating: 70% Fresh Page   12   > Next "Gaghan piles one storyline on another but is only interested in suggesting where they trend, working like a (cynical) editorialist who has made up a few examples to support his views."   Blogcritics.org   Alan Dale "Preferring probing questions to pat solutions, the film drills deep in its exploration of the US's ventures, both economic and military, in the Middle East."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel "Overly ambitious and too complicated."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker D+ "...manages to take one of the hottest and most controversial topics in the world and turn it into a convoluted snooze fest. Color me shocked."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark C+ "It has all the pedigree of classic political picture, yet all the dramatic urgency of a C-SPAN afternoon."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf 3/5 "a fitfully engrossing and overreaching film that is both somehow too much and yet not enough."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti A- "The thematic temperature of "Syriana" runs hot and doesn't waste a single second of film time."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "Frustrated, the sons adapt to the cruel, fanatical, and radically individual politics of their moment."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 4/5 "While 'Syriana' takes much of its inspiration from current headlines, its greatest strength is not in how it reminds viewers of what they can see on a cable news channel but in how it can make its participants become convincingly human."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger A "One of the year's more compelling and better films."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 4/10 "Gaghan kapitulira pred holivudskim konvencijama te film zaklju%u010Duje spektakularnom, ali banalnom i krajnje neuvjerljivom zavr%u0161nicom"   Index.hr   Dragan Antulov 2.5/4 "An occasionally incomprehensible work that still manages to be captivating and consistently watchable."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 3/5 "Un tenso e interesante thriller político, si bien abrumador y por momentos confuso, sobre tema actual, con destacada labor de George Clooney."   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B- "I'm giving the film a 'recommended' grade because it's well-shot and convincingly acted, and because I think there are things lurking in it that would emerge with a second viewing."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "Damon again getting Gerry'ed out in the middle of nowhere encapsulates Gaghan's wandering around an issue that should leave us with something more substantial than one man trying to make sense of what just happened."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress A- "A whirlwind of ambition and outrage."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov B- "Admirably serious but untidy, excessively schematic and more than slightly self-important...its higher ambition is enough to make it mildly recommendable."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 5/5 "One of the best films of the year reveals the violence, the corruption, and the political chicanery involved in maintaining our addiction to fossil fuels."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3.5/4 "It's a wake-up call. In today's environment, it's a rare thing to find a movie with interesting characters in dense, intelligent storylines, but that's what Syriana offers."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "Syriana really makes viewers work to try to understand the complexities involved in protecting (or resisting) U.S. interests in the Middle East."   Reel.com   James Plath 7/10 "It's intimidatingly intelligent, definitely not a time-waster, and challenges the viewer to keep up. But mashing in so many stories also serves to weaken the film as a whole."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 2/4 "It has big ideas, but no pulse."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp C- "Cloaking Oliver Stone-like message mongering with Tarantino film techniques, Gaghan preaches well known leftist political tomes"   Old School Reviews   John A. Nesbit 8/10 "If there is any lesson the makers of Syriana want us to absorb, it is that we should trust no one where power and money are concerned."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 8/10 "A gorgeous, well-acted (by a gaggle of successful directors, in Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson, and Thomas McCarthy), Soderbergh-y undertaking, but it's going to go over like a fart in church."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick "."   3BlackChicks Review   Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 3/5 "I did not understand a good deal of this film, and as a result, I found it nearly impossible to get engaged with the elements I did understand and I was unsurprised by many of the revelations purportedly sprung by this movie."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3/4 "Some movies have everything going for them, except that little extra 'oomph'."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest A- "...a sobering reflection of our post 9/11 world and how efforts to control natural energy resources have far reaching and disastrous effects."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "The cinematic equivalent of a sound bite."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik B "Syriana demands patience to see how the pieces come together in a fascinating mosaic of politics, capitalism, and corruption."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[K]eeps you on a teeter-totter of emotion... it leaves you with a sense of falling that is entirely unsettling."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "The film throws so much information at you so quickly and so relentlessly that it's easy to become overwhelmed and confused."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "If you want a movie that answers all your questions, try "Revenge of the Sith." If you want a movie that questions all your answers, try this one. "   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow C "Didactic and muddled to the point of incoherence."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 5/5 "Longe de representar uma experiência emocional, o longa exige dedicação ao espectador - e se você estiver disposto(a) a mergulhar na discussão será fartamente recompensado(a)."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 4/5 "A bleak and powerful movie, made all the more sobering by how much of it isn’t fiction."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 4.5/5 "Gaghan's script wisely sticks to the human story as things twist and turn."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3/5 "Probes a significant subject but treats its people as mere stick figures carrying exposition from place to place."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves A "This is how agenda filmmaking is supposed to work: respecting its audience enough to stimulate their minds, rather than telling them what to think."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "It falls short of its high goals, but achieves much more than less ambitious films."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten A "Stephen Gaghan doesn't try to explain everything that is going on, allowing the viewer to decide who is good, bad or in shades of gray."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 3/4 "Rips its motivations from the front pages of our daily newspapers, blurring the line between reality and fiction with credible subplots and believable twists."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 10/10 "A powerful political thriller, striking a resonating chord with the oil-connected news that unfolds every day."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 2.5/4 "A crisply acted and occasionally exciting ensemble film undone by murky plotting and thin character development."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 2/4 "A film about going home and being good to your kids."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 5/10 Read review   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 3/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 4/5 Read review   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi  (1 - 50) of 51 OFCS Rating: 70% Fresh Page   12   > Next