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No End in Sight
Magnolia Pictures
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
Campbell Scott
The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerrilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, No End in Sight is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine (in charge of Baghdad during the Spring of 2003), Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, and General Jay Garner (in charge of the occupation of Iraq through May 2003), as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers and prominent analysts. No End in Sight examines the manner in which the principal errors of U.S. policy – the use of insufficient troop levels, allowing the looting of Baghdad, the purging of professionals from the Iraqi government and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. (Magnolia Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Charles Ferguson
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Charles Ferguson
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: July 27, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
102 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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.

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.

100
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Perhaps the most cogent and straightforward dissection of the Bush Administration missteps leading up to the current Iraq nightmare.

100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
May be the best and saddest film of the year so far.

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.

100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
The most coolheaded of the Iraq war documentaries, the most methodical and the least polemical. Yet it's the one that will leave audiences the most shattered, angry and astounded.

100
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
If any movie can rid Americans of "Iraq war fatigue," it's Charles Ferguson's muscular documentary No End in Sight.

100
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Ferguson's film is a clear-sighted counterpoint to the former secretary of defense's impression. As the title suggests, it's a seemingly infinite mess.

100
Film Threat
Rick Kisonak
No End In Sight is the most important film of the year thus far and, more significantly, the most comprehensive, clear-eyed account of the Iraq debacle and the arrogance behind it that we have.

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.

90
The New Yorker
David Denby
Though the facts in No End in Sight are well known, the movie is still a classic.

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.

90
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
It’s a sober, revelatory and absolutely vital film.

89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's enough to make you weep.

88
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
The most remarkable aspect of Charles Ferguson's lacerating documentary about the U.S. invasion of Iraq is that the film contains virtually no new information, and yet its message is as compelling as if we were hearing it for the first time.

88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Lucid, concise and devastating account of what went wrong in Iraq, patiently counts those 500 ways.

88
TV Guide
Ken Fox
The anger that fuels Ferguson's film is felt in nearly every frame.

88
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The most compelling and least partisan of all the Iraq documentaries.

83
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
It's a cogent, often infuriating explication of how the execution of the war went awry.

83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The film concludes that there's still simply no way out of the forest.

83
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
The first to take a big-picture view of just how the plans for postwar occupation went so far off track.

80
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Ferguson is admirably tenacious in assigning blame for the boneheaded mistakes that have doomed Iraqi reconstruction. Paul Bremer, former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, is hung out to dry.

80
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Ferguson builds a compelling case of bad judgment, error, stubbornness and arrogance.

80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
From the first frames of Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight, replaying some of the oddest and twitchiest podium performances of Donald Rumsfeld during those heady days of spring 2003, you may feel the crushing weight of an almost Sophoclean impending doom.

80
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
A meticulous, thoroughly engrossing lesson in how not to win friends (or wars) and influence people (or potential terrorists).

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.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
May not offer up any fresh revelations, but this effectively assembled documentary puts it all in valuable, if depressing, perspective.

63
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Some documentaries are a fervent search for truth; others are a fervent search for snickers. This one is the latter, providing via interviews and old film clips a Greatest Hits for Bush haters.


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