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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Disturbing, analytical and morose. This is not a "political" film nor yet another screed about the Bush administration or the war in Iraq. It is driven simply, powerfully, by the desire to understand those photographs. Read full review
Morris, using a welter of photographs (many of which we haven't seen), constructs a day-to-day sense of how Abu Ghraib descended into a medieval hell. Read full review
In Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris does something inconceivable and, at first glance, ill-advised. He gives the US soldiers of Abu Ghraib back their humanity. Read full review
It may be the most disturbing film you'll see in a long time. Read full review
Focus is really the heart of Morris' unsettling film, which strikes a remarkable balance between art and disturbance, between beauty and pain. Read full review
Reveals one mystery, only to reveal another that it can't quite penetrate. Read full review
A big, provocative and -- it goes without saying -- disturbing work, though what makes it most provocative is that its greatest ambitions are for its own visual style. Read full review
Too narrowly focused. Read full review
Adds relatively little insight to the public understanding of wayward military behavior more incisively analyzed in "Taxi to the Dark Side." Read full review
If the movie is meant to uncover any "big scandals," it's a disappointment. The investigator, in one surprising sequence, goes through a number of alleged "torture" photos and acknowledges that the vast majority of them represent "standard operating procedure." That is supposed to be the film's kicker: not what was illegal but how much was legal. Read full review
4.0
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… you probably know enough about this horror show … Read full review