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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Philadelphia Weekly (778) on 20 May 2008

Each successive Morris picture seems to grow glossier and more vague, pushing further into abstraction and incessant macro-lens close-ups of…

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By Jeff Shannon (255) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 15 May 2008

Morris explores the reality of Abu Ghraib with a visceral intensity that straightforward reportage could never allow…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for I.E. Weekly (269) on 14 May 2008

What's epic in Morris' still and haunting assembly of talking heads is an indictment of photography, and by extension, history…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seanax.com (387) on 14 May 2008

Morris challenges us to understand what the pictures show and what they don't show, and to see them in context…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 08 May 2008

Reveals one mystery, only to reveal another that it can't quite penetrate…

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By Tim Brayton (2,283) for Antagony & Ecstasy (1,911) on 07 May 2008

Reduces one of the truly horrifying controversies in American military history to an intellectual puzzle…

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By Adam Fendelman (235) for HollywoodChicago.com (623) on 05 May 2008

Director Errol Morris tackled the Iraqi prison subject -- among the mass of recent Iraq war documentaries -- because he 'wasn't sure anyone…

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By Jeanne Kaplan (738) for Kaplan vs. Kaplan (1,174) on 05 May 2008

After Errol Morris' Fog of War, I was expecting something more provocative from him --- instead, what we get is a very lengthy, often repetitive…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Ebert & Roeper (629) on 04 May 2008

Sometimes painful to watch, but a movie that must be seen…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 01 May 2008

The singular achievement of SOP is reminding us that truth is always a slippery construct, made all the more so by the fallible human mind…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 May 2008

Focus is really the heart of Morris' unsettling film, which strikes a remarkable balance between art and disturbance, between beauty and pain…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 01 May 2008

Relentless unpleasantness may be the most appropriate quality of this movie that disturbs in so many different ways…

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By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 01 May 2008

This film by the masterful Errol Morris gets closer to the actual events than any of them, with probing interviews of soldiers who were involved…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 01 May 2008

In Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris does something inconceivable and, at first glance, ill-advised…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for The Deadbolt (73) on 01 May 2008

Even with an amazing filmmaker like Morris, it's impossible to yet fully focus the photos from Abu Ghraib and truly know what happened, who…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 01 May 2008

Errol Morris' smart new documentary remembers the Abu Ghraib pictures' effects -- the shock, the outrage, and the anger that greeted their release…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 30 Apr 2008

Errol Morris set out to demonstrate that the picture doesn't necessarily tell the story…

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By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 30 Apr 2008

Morris doesn't let these low-echelon soldiers off the hook, but he's aware they were used to deflect attention from the system that allowed…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 30 Apr 2008

It's gut-grinding, to be sure. But a misjudged degree of cinematic dazzle obscures the outrages at the core of Standard Operating Procedure…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 24 Apr 2008

While Morris isn't interested in exonerating anyone, he clearly sympathizes to some degree with the MPs and deplores the military's fall-guy…

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