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By Stephen Whitty (1,794) for Newark Star-Ledger (1,745) on 17 Apr 2008

While some of the interviews are interesting, and the scenery beautiful, eventually the juvenile jokes overwhelm any real point that Spurlock…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 17 Apr 2008

After a clever start, Spurlock turns self-serious, aiming to teach us something about our enemies and ourselves…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 17 Apr 2008

Just by asking questions, Spurlock creates the opportunity for dialogue, and the responses are heartening in their diversity…

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By Glenn Whipp (553) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 17 Apr 2008

Spurlock's deliberately facile method might make his movie palatable to moviegoers resistant to serious documentaries that include actual information…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 17 Apr 2008

Although Osama wraps up a bit too quickly, and ends a bit too obviously, the thing Spurlock finds is, for the most part, these people resemble us…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 17 Apr 2008

At its most illuminating, Morgan Spurlock's compelling if self-indulgent travelogue investigation Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 17 Apr 2008

Everywhere he goes he asks if anybody knows bin Laden's whereabouts – as if anybody is going to tell him…

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By Josh Rosenblatt (154) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 17 Apr 2008

So kudos to Spurlock for going into enemy territory and coming back with the message that there really is no enemy territory…

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By Ray Greene (127) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 17 Apr 2008

A nearly note-perfect anthem for virtually everything about American policy it seeks to critique…

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By Brandon Fibbs (448) for BrandonFibbs.com (287) on 17 Apr 2008

Remember the wise old saying about the journey being more important than the destination…

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By Carrie Rickey (1,198) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 17 Apr 2008

Spurlock's intermittently entertaining travelogue ultimately reveals that people in disparate countries of different religions and wildly divergent…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 17 Apr 2008

Spurlock applies his brand of humorous social activism to the War on Terror, and the results are funny and humanist…

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By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for The Deadbolt (73) on 17 Apr 2008

A near-miss, a wasted opportunity to really dig deep into a major section of the world that is usually viewed on purely a surface level…

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By Rob Vaux (1,125) for Flipside Movie Emporium (617) on 16 Apr 2008

It relies too much on Spurlock's own personality to make simple and fairly obvious points in a manner which never offends, but certainly fails…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 16 Apr 2008

I can only hope that when the DVD comes out, it includes some hidden camera footage of Harvey Weinstein's immediate reaction when he saw the…

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By Bill Gibron (1,013) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 16 Apr 2008

The middle hour is magnificent, as fascinating a portrait of the beleaguered region as you're likely to see outside the Travel Channel…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 16 Apr 2008

It's impossible to take Morgan Spurlock seriously as a big-screen documentarian…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 16 Apr 2008

Documentary humorist Morgan Spurlock explores the lighter side of international terrorism in Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for AV Club (2,778) on 16 Apr 2008

While the film's gags don't always jibe with its sincere interviews of Middle Eastern citizens, or its worrisome encounters with the soldiers…

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By Stephen Hunter (927) for Washington Post (9,851) on 16 Apr 2008

In casbahs and desert villages, in kibbutzim and around the campfire, Spurlock has a way of getting people to open up, to use their real voices…

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