Dirty Wars
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings
- Starring: Jeremy Scahill
- Summary: Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into a surprising journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.
- Director: Rick Rowley
- Genre(s): Drama, Documentary
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91I wish Rowley didn’t so often dabble in standard movie-thriller-style stylistics, but his film is an exposé of practices that need – demand – exposing.
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90[A] pessimistic, grimly outraged and utterly riveting documentary.
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88The film is a documentary, pure and simple. But the movie, by director Rick Rowley, plays out like something of a murder mystery.
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78This is a film you skip seeing at your own risk.
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75These wars being fought in our name may be dirty, but this courageous film reminds us that as long as we have a free press, they don’t have to be secret.
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Jun 14, 201375The reporter's story doesn't just hold water, it proven solid enough to provoke mainstream media appearances and Congressional investigations. As a result, even though the tale is urgently important, one still comes away with the sense that something valuable has been lost in the telling.
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65Scahill is right to focus on the price American security efforts have cost in human rights — and human life. Yet there are difficult questions hovering just outside the frame of Dirty Wars. Short of pacifism, and given that there is no such thing as a truly clean war, what would count as an "acceptable" level of collateral damage?
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