Review of Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS (2017) by David Denby for The New Yorker — 17 Jul 2017
The movie dramatizes the destruction of a society from within that society. Watching “Hell on Earth” is not an easy experience; I can’t recall another documentary with so many corpses. It’s a grief-struck history of cruelty, haplessness, and irresponsibility—a moral history as well as a history of events.
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This review of Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS (2017) was written by David Denby and published by The New Yorker on 17 Jul 2017.
Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS has generally received very positive reviews.
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