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  • 2005
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  • Palm Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2005
  • R
  • Palm Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary This documentary reveals the complex realities of the situation in Iraq not seen on the nightly news. Told first-hand by our troops, Gunner Palace presents a thought provoking portrait of a dangerous and chaotic war that is personal, highly emotional, sometimes disturbing, surprisingly amusing ... and thoroughly fascinating. (Palm Pictu...

Directed By: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker

  • 2005
  • R
  • Palm Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2005
  • R
  • Palm Pictures
  • 1 h 25 m

Gunner Palace

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
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Summary This documentary reveals the complex realities of the situation in Iraq not seen on the nightly news. Told first-hand by our troops, Gunner Palace presents a thought provoking portrait of a dangerous and chaotic war that is personal, highly emotional, sometimes disturbing, surprisingly amusing ... and thoroughly fascinating. (Palm Pictu...

Directed By: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
70
79% Positive
26 Reviews
18% Mixed
6 Reviews
3% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 33 Critic Reviews
70
79% Positive
26 Reviews
18% Mixed
6 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review

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100
At the very least, it's more honest and involved in its portraiture of American soldiers in Iraq than anything TV news of any political persuasion has given us.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
88
A riveting and indispensable record of the war in Iraq because it comes from the men who lived it.
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW
75
Despite the jumpy, ride-along camera work and the ever-present threat of engagement, a certain tedium sets in during the film.
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW
70
A lack of artful filmmaking doesn't detract from the dramatic impact of this fly-on-the-wall, cinema verite documentary.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
70
For the soldiers, it's about living to see the next day and living with the things they see, and Gunner Palace honors their perspective like no other Iraq documentary has to date.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
50
Although the acclaimed documentary Gunner Palace contains some electrifying vignettes of the Iraq war, its jaggedly elliptical and hopped-up style lands it in a limbo between ragged and slick.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
30
Gunner Palace too often makes the grunts look like mean slackers -- precisely the opposite, one presumes, of what was intended.
By Ken Tucker FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Nomados
Release Date Mar 4, 2005
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating R
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Tagline Some war stories will never make the nightly news.
Website http://www.gunnerpalace.com/
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Awards

Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination

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