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Movie Overview
Director
Errol Morris
MPAA Rating
R - for disturbing images and content involving torture and graphic nudity, and for language
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)
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3/5
"Morris has certainly achieved a gloss ... but at a cost to the factual content."
Eye for Film
Amber Wilkinson
4/5
"In some ways,
Standard Operating Procedure
is too appalling to appreciate. It's like watching the Nuremberg Trials, Nazis purposefully passing the buck higher and higher up, fully aware that no one above a certain rank is around to take the blame."
PopMatters
Bill Gibron
3.5/4
"Morris's signature touches can occasionally seem studied to the point of annoyance but the cumulative power of his busy, artsy style generally enhances the horror, making it no more palatable than necessary."
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
3.5/5
"Engrossing if inexcusably flashy"
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
A+
"With his trademark use of slow-motion images and direct-to-camera interviews, Errol Morris spells out the extent of one of the biggest cover-ups in modern U.S. history."
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
"Errol Morris' smart new documentary remembers the Abu Ghraib pictures' effects -- the shock, the outrage, and the anger that greeted their release."
PopMatters
Cynthia Fuchs
4/5
"Since most mainstream documentaries take a clearly leftist view of things, I liked the fact Morris wasn’t trying to cram his opinion down our throats."
Film Threat
Don R. Lewis
B+
"Errol Morris is the best documentary filmmaker currently working, maybe the best ever."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
B
"Coolly intense...If the film is only partially successful...the goal remains important, and Morris' commitment to it is laudable."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
B
"Much of the information Morris supplies is new, but he squanders the opportunity to make it illuminating."
Cinepinion
Henry Stewart
8/10
"Examines both the mystery of primitive human instincts and the nature and power of photography."
Window to the Movies
Jeffrey Chen
A
"tears through the facade"
Old School Reviews
John A. Nesbit
"Morris offers valuable new perspectives on Abu Ghraib, but the paying customers may not care to go there again."
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
B+
"Errol Morris set out to demonstrate that the picture doesn't necessarily tell the story..."
Reeling Reviews
Laura Clifford
2/4
"Non-essential Morris. Pick any other documentary to find more interesting and colorful subjects."
Movie Habit
Marty Mapes
B-
"A semiotics-tinged investigation into the nature of images themselves: how the contents, arrangement, and manipulation of the frame all affect interpretation and help define meaning."
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
4/5
"[A film] that is likely to outrage and provoke anyone who comes into contact with it."
eFilmCritic.com
Peter Sobczynski
"By returning to the pictures over and over again, Morris shows the power of the photos, how the visual record became the only evidence that carried any power in the media..."
Seanax.com
Sean Axmaker
5/10
"Reduces one of the truly horrifying controversies in American military history to an intellectual puzzle."
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
"Click here to see review"
Wolf Entertainment Guide
William Wolf
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