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(1 - 19) of 19 OFCS Rating: 58% Rotten Page   1   2/5 "So obvious in its intentions that it screams 'teenager scamming for the car keys', Redacted fails to fully embrace the proposed genius of its premise."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron "The pretense of authenticity which all the sub-vérité stylings are meant to imply don't lend much credibility to a film that couldn't much be bothered with realism."   Film Journal International   Chris Barsanti C "Stereotyped characters, tame attempts at shock, and amateur actors doom "Redacted" as an unpolished movie about an important subject."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "'Redacted' is effective in atmosphere and in making a point, obvious as that is."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit 2/4 "There is a place for staunchly political cinema like Redacted, just as there is a place for any genre or personal perspective. In this case, it is the crude treatment of the material that spells its undoing."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C "Even the rants against Redacted by that noxious blowhard Bill O'Reilly aren't quite reason enough to recommend it."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A scary and powerful fictional story based on real events that probes the violence behind the so-called collateral damage in the Iraq war."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "Brian De Palma has achieved a fresh level of perspective; the psychological wounds of war as seen through the eyes of the damaged and eternally damned."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth "Poorly executed, poorly acted, and poorly imagined."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick "So much blood spilled over so little."   House Next Door   Keith Uhlich 1/3 "Redacted sustrae el debate de lo realmente importante, la guerra, y como se ha visto, lo coloca sobre sí misma: ¿qué parte es real?"   Off-Off-Critica   MalaBesta C "Feels like the work of a director so righteously angry and so pleased with his formal experimentation that he doesn't realize how painfully, inelegantly obvious he's being."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 5/5 "A shattering and angry work of socially committed cinema that is one of the most emotionally devastating films of De Palma's entire career"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "DePalma takes a storytelling approach that's both utterly unlike anything he's ever done and remarkably effective at telling this particular story."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 8/10 "The most disturbing and successful release since the start of the Iraqi war. Another anti-war film that may be too good for its own good."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson B- "Redacted is as much a cinematic experiment as a movie, a deconstruction of our ideas of objectivity, subjectivity, and the way we relate to screen characters."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "Of all the war-themed pictures that have been released so far this fall, it stands apart, and it stands alone: Redacted is confrontational, rough, immediate and confounding."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 7/10 "In all its frustrations, this might well be the first great film on the Iraq War."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 19) of 19 OFCS Rating: 58% Rotten Page   1