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Metascore®89 out of 100 | Universal acclaim

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

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Who is Charles Ferguson, director of this film? A one-time senior fellow of the Brookings Institute, software millionaire, originally a supporter of the war, visiting professor at MIT and Berkeley, he was trustworthy enough to inspire confidences from former top officials. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips

    May be the best and saddest film of the year so far. Read full review

  • 100
    Time | Richard Schickel

    Prepare to be riveted: No End in Sight, Charles Ferguson's first film, is without question the most important movie you are likely to see this year. Read full review

  • 100
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Ferguson spotlights two massive mistakes: the looting that was allowed to continue, destroying Iraqi infrastructure and morale; and--far more revelatory -- the apocalyptically stupid decision to disband the Iraqi army, sending half a million angry soldiers into the streets. Read full review

  • 90
    The New Yorker | David Denby

    Though the facts in No End in Sight are well known, the movie is still a classic. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    It’s a sober, revelatory and absolutely vital film. Read full review

  • 90
    Village Voice | Rob Nelson

    Masterfully edited and cumulatively walloping, Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight turns the well-known details of our monstrously bungled Iraq war into an enraging, apocalyptic litany of fuckups. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Dennis Lim

    The result, narrated in a grave monotone by Campbell Scott, is a catalog of horrors so absurd and relentless it verges on farce, or Greek tragedy. Read full review

  • 83
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Noel Murray

    It's a cogent, often infuriating explication of how the execution of the war went awry. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    With an accountant's eye for precision and a political scientist's grasp of the machinations that move national policy, Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight itemizes the errors, misjudgments and follies that have defined the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq. Read full review

Avg. Fan Rating:
Average Rating = 3.3 out of 5

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