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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    It unflinchingly illuminates the toll exacted by the Iraq War in a raw, deeply personal and completely compelling manner. Read full review

  • 63
    TV Guide | Ken Fox

    Says many things at once without much perspective or clarity. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times |

    This overlong, mawkish yet weirdly mesmerizing film doesn't just invite identification with its tragically unhinged character; it compels it, by piling on biblically horrible misfortunes, weepy confessions and editorializing music. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    A strenuously solemn film that wants to create some kind of American pastoral tragedy out of the nation's current angst with the war. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    Possibly the worst idea for a movie this century. Read full review

  • 30
    Village Voice |

    Writer-director Francesco Lucente's overconfident, emotionally forced 160-minute opus offers trite antiwar platitudes--at best--in chronicling the anguished existence of a soldier who can't shake the horrors he experienced in Fallujah. Read full review

  • 20
    Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten

    Badland's only commercial potential lies in the possibility that people may confuse it for Terrence Malick's incomparable "Badlands." Read full review

  • 12
    New York Post | Kyle Smith

    The year's dullest movie has arrived: the deeply silly Badland, which is as dead as winter and twice as long. Read full review

  • 10
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    Overlong, over-the-top dirge. Read full review

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