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  • 2019
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 10 m
  • 2019
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 10 m

Summary Just out of high school, at the age of 18, Miles Lagoze enlisted in the Marine Corps. He was deployed to Afghanistan where he served as Combat Camera — his unit's official videographer, tasked with shooting and editing footage for the Corps’ recruiting purposes and historical initiatives. But upon discharging, Lagoze took all the footage...

Directed By: Miles Lagoze

  • 2019
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 10 m
  • 2019
  • Oscilloscope
  • 1 h 10 m

Combat Obscura

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
56
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
7.3
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Summary Just out of high school, at the age of 18, Miles Lagoze enlisted in the Marine Corps. He was deployed to Afghanistan where he served as Combat Camera — his unit's official videographer, tasked with shooting and editing footage for the Corps’ recruiting purposes and historical initiatives. But upon discharging, Lagoze took all the footage...

Directed By: Miles Lagoze

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
56
71% Positive
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
56
71% Positive
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29% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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75
Mar 18, 2019
While Lagoze’s film may not offer any genuinely new insights, it is an unsettling opportunity to bear witness to the numbing chaos of war.
By Gary Garrison FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 20, 2019
Military myth-making dies hard in Combat Obscura, perhaps the most unfiltered account of American boots on the ground in Afghanistan.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 14, 2019
Leaning in to the style its patchwork of source material requires, Combat Obscura, is an eye-opening dispatch from a conflict mired in confusion.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
67
Mar 13, 2019
Unsurprisingly, the results aren’t pretty.
By Lawrence Garcia FULL REVIEW
63
Mar 11, 2019
The portrait it paints of its Marines is appropriately discordant, redolent of the twitchy frustration caused by a long stint in a sparse landscape with a hazy mission.
By Christopher Gray FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 14, 2019
More polished docs like "Restrepo" have covered similar ground in less scattered fashion, usually giving more coherent pictures of military operations while they're at it.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 14, 2019
Due to the movie’s deliberate lack of narrative arc, thematic stance and clear characterizations (the soldiers feel interchangeable and Logaze’s interview style is weak), we’re never always sure what we’re watching — or why.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
7.3
83% Positive
5 Ratings
0% Mixed
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17% Negative
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83% Positive
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0% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Release Date Mar 15, 2019
Duration 1 h 10 m
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Website https://www.combatobscura.com/
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Awards

Dallas International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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