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By Charles Ealy |
October 8, 2004 |
"Uncovered: The War on Iraq is an important documentary, making a powerful case against the justifications used by the Bush administration to invade Iraq. But Uncovered is far from great filmmaking. It leaps from one talking head to another, without the editing finesse of Fahrenheit 9/11 or Horns and Halos, both of which were highly political yet stylish. Directed by Robert Greenwald, Uncovered assembles an array of foreign policy specialists, former CIA analysts and other experts to discuss the evidence behind President Bush's claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Almost all the interviewees point out flaws in administration thinking, and some explicitly argue that the Bush team made up its mind before looking closely at the evidence. " Full Review »
By Kenneth Turan |
August 27, 2004 |
"'Uncovered: The War on Iraq' starts in an unusually calm and measured way for a documentary critical of that particular military adventure. All antiwar docs, it turns out, are not cut from the same cloth. Instead of stentorian rhetoric, this Robert Greenwald-directed film begins quietly, with a group of experts matter-of-factly identifying themselves and stating their bona fides ... Although "Uncovered" is adamant in its opposition to the war, perhaps the most significant, most upsetting point it makes is distinctly nonpolitical." Full Review »
By John Anderson |
August 20, 2004 |
"Blow-by-blow debunking by experts of the Bush administration's case for war ... about as damning a document as one could imagine about the
'rationalization and justification' for the ongoing quagmire in that unfortunate Middle Eastern country. Unlike Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' 'Uncovered' doesn't strain to make George W. Bush look inept or Colin Powell look disingenuous or Dick Cheney look like the Antichrist. He lets them do it themselves, through their public statements and the counterarguments he presents via a Murderers' Row of espionage, military and security experts - mostly ex-CIA and all of the opinion that the public trust has been violated." Full Review »
By Dave Kehr |
August 20, 2004 |
"Rather than attempt a sweeping indictment of the Bush administration and all that it stands for, Mr. Greenwald focuses on a simple, demonstrable point: that the war in Iraq was sold to Congress and the American public through a coordinated series of public misstatements that at best look like wishful thinking and at worst like outright deception.Mr. Greenwald presents a Macy's parade of experts -- everyone from John Dean to David A. Kay -- in support of his thesis, though the star of the show is Ray McGovern, an articulate and dryly funny former C.I.A. analyst who now heads the anti-invasion group Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity." Full Review »
By Peter Bradshaw |
September 29, 2004 |
"... dogged and fiercely unrelenting case against our military adventure in Iraq, composed of a sequence of talking-head observers, including former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter. The points are repeatedly, even shrilly, hammered home." Full Review »
By Owen Gleiberman |
September 3, 2004 |
"Uncovered: The War on Iraq is a smashingly effective documentary--I found it more resonant than Fahrenheit 9/11--yet to say that it's preaching to the converted would be generous; it's preaching to a microscopic sliver of the converted. The movie is part of a new wave of liberal-left exposes that wear their timely urgency like a campaign button. That sounds admirable, except that it's the very topicality of movies like Uncovered, The Hunting of the President, and Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism that results in their blending into the white noise of media overkill. Absent the proletarian star appeal of a Michael Moore, how many people will pay to see a fluid assemblage of the very same news clips that have been numbing them for free?" Full Review »
By Terry Lawson |
September 10, 2004 |
"Using nothing but the (often contradictory) public pronouncements of
the Bush administration, [Greenwald] presents [the Bush administrations] stated case for declaring war
on Iraq and its defense of how and why it has been waged. Then [Greenwald]
rebuts them point by point with the testimony of defense and national
security analysts, former members of the intelligence community,
diplomats and others who strongly disagree with the purpose, strategy
and the conduct of the war ... this is the prosecution's argument, and it is extremely well-made." Full Review »
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