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By Naveed A (41) on 27 Nov 2011

Shows how it really is. I guess anyway. Soldiers risking everything desperate to find some meaning to justify it…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 18 Nov 2011

The film suggests that it doesn't really matter whether Harris ever gets back in uniform…

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By Jake F (214) on 16 Nov 2011

Intimate, brilliantly edited, and shot with a goddamn DSLR…

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By Tirdad Derakhshani (358) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 03 Nov 2011

A superb, violent, jarring and daring documentary…

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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shockya.com (657) on 24 Oct 2011

Belies the misguided notion that a nonfiction effort on war's aftermath can't be artistically minded, and also can't somehow be as moving as…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 21 Oct 2011

An absorbing peek into the circumstances of people whose stories usually get filtered in movies…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 19 Oct 2011

The director has no intention of making a prefab antiwar statement…

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By Philip French (1,151) for Observer (UK) (2,398) on 15 Oct 2011

I can't recall a documentary shaped quite this way. Dennis handles it with integrity, and the effect is painful and deeply moving…

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By Tom Dawson (244) for Total Film (3,532) on 09 Oct 2011

Flashbacks, overlapping sound and dynamic editing viscerally convey Harris' state of mind, leaving a bleak picture of the struggle to win the…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 06 Oct 2011

As vital as the best war chronicles to come out in recent years, this is one every American ought to see…

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By Chris Barsanti (896) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 05 Oct 2011

Has the artistry of a painting and the impact of a sucker punch…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for AV Club (2,778) on 05 Oct 2011

The film portrays the dizzying divide between war and recovery eloquently enough that those choices seem like intrusions instead of connections,…

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By Christopher Campbell (291) for Movies.com (1,002) on 04 Oct 2011

Just as necessary and cinematic as Restrepo…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 04 Oct 2011

A group of true believers in the American cause in the Afghanistan war and what happens to one of them when he comes home injured…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 04 Oct 2011

Watching the formerly spry Harris struggle to maintain a normal life (he's frequently glassy-eyed and jacked on painkillers) emphasizes the…

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By V.a. Musetto (698) for New York Post (6,650) on 04 Oct 2011

Dennis refuses to push a political agenda down viewers' throats…

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By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 03 Oct 2011

Working alone with a camera and his ingenuity, Dennis captured the surreality of firefights with an invisible enemy and the frustration of…

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By Lauren Wissot (25) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 01 Oct 2011

Unlike most war documentaries, which tend to only skim the surface of its gun-toting subjects' lives, photojournalist Danfung Dennis's Hell…

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By Clay Cane (203) for BET.com (238) on 29 Sep 2011

Memorable for its willingness to tackle the psychological effects of war without pushing an agenda down the viewers' throats…

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By Ian Buckwalter (369) for The Washingtonian (21) on 30 Jul 2011

Danfung Dennis appears to set out to make a film on one subject, only to have an entirely new, much more compelling story emerge in the midst…

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