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By Andres V (550) on 14 Jul 2017

Very Powerful story that will open your eyes to a reality you think you know but you really don't…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 13 Jul 2017

City of Ghosts is a powerful documentary that exposes ISIS and its machinations to a degree we have not seen before…

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By Annlee Ellingson (847) for L.A. Biz (397) on 13 Jul 2017

Heineman finds beauty in his subject ... elevating his documentary exposé to art…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 13 Jul 2017

Heineman's documentary may be a little static, but with its sympathetic depiction of fear and hiding, it paints a vivid, terrifying portrait…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Jul 2017

City of Ghosts provides a grim reminder of what journalism should look like, and why its stakes are literally life and death…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 12 Jul 2017

City of Ghosts demonstrates, in Hamoud’s phrase, that “the camera is more powerful than a weapon,” but it also shows the horrible price…

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By Amber Wilkinson (674) for Eye for Film (1,537) on 12 Jul 2017

Heineman and the powerful footage captured by RBBSS, remind us that the deaths aren't just news statistics, each one carries a human face…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for indieWire (3,631) on 12 Jul 2017

It often feels like Heineman is (understandably) too overwhelmed by the stories he’s capturing to help shape them into something greater…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 12 Jul 2017

Whether the truth sets anyone free is unknowable at this point, but the city that was being slaughtered silently has been heard, and its suffering…

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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 10 Jul 2017

This is formidable filmmaking, and Heineman has become one of our most daring, and interesting, documentarians…

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By Thelma Adams (133) for Observer (1,042) on 10 Jul 2017

It achieves its humanity by connecting audiences to dynamic Muslim men who reveal so much about themselves in the silence between traumas,…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 10 Jul 2017

When news gets to Turkey that ISIS, unable to stop RBSS reporting by tracing satellite signals, has outlawed satellite dishes, we see video…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 09 Jul 2017

City of Ghosts is far less about the region’s troubled history than about the now, the daily abuses that continue to grow in severity as…

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By Dominick Mayer (133) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 08 Jul 2017

City of Ghosts is a harrowing account of a Syria that's largely only seen through images of destruction in the West…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for TheWrap (3,203) on 06 Jul 2017

As information-age documents go, it’s as necessary a glimpse of 21st century heroism and ideology warfare as you’re going to encounter,…

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By Louis Proyect (533) for Counterpunch.org (73) on 06 Jul 2017

A timely reminder that as the city of Raqqa is being bombed mercilessly by the USA, it was never reconciled to ISIS rule…

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By Todd Jorgenson (1,852) for Cinemalogue.com (1,236) on 06 Jul 2017

The powerful film is a tribute to their work, but also provides new insight into the Syrian conflict and explores the evolution of activism…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 06 Jul 2017

Heineman's doc is a stirring testament to valor and resolve in the face of tragedy and menace, and a case study in how wars are also fought,…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 06 Jul 2017

City of Ghosts doesn’t feel like it has the impact of Heineman’s previous film, the searing “Cartel Land,” but it is still a worthwhile…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 06 Jul 2017

“We punched a hole in the darkness,” they declare, and as the film is framed within a ceremony where their efforts are honored by the world’s…

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