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  • Summary: When Hollywood gives a young Iraqi film student the opportunity of a lifetime, nothing goes according to plan, and the result is an engaging, sometimes comical political parable about do-gooder intentions gone wrong. (First Run/Icarus Films)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. 83
    Operation Filmmaker takes a thrilling left turn from its original conceit, and Davenport does a nice job rolling with the punches.
  2. 75
    Operation Filmmaker is eventually about Muthana blackmailing Davenport by withholding access to him as she fruitlessly seeks a happy ending for her film. "Now, I'm just looking for an exit strategy," she finally concludes.
  3. 75
    This gut punch of a documentary will knock you for a loop. File it under "no good deed goes unpunished."
  4. Davenport herself seems stunned by how complicated the story turns out to be, which just makes her movie all the more worthwhile.

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