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100Potent.
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90Voices in Wartime is a stirring testament to the search for meaning.
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80A thoughtful, provocative exploration of the ways poets have dealt with the experience of battle throughout history.
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75A moving documentary about poetry inspired by combat.
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75Eloquent and informative.
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70Filled with some of the most powerful poetry and shattering images ever to come out of warfare.
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70Rick King's stirring documentary Voices in Wartime is not, as you might guess from the title, a compilation of soldiers' battlefield letters to their families back home. This intense little film is about poetry, and not just Homer's "Iliad."
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70A history of verse is laid alongside that of warfare, and the ways in which they are braided together proves fascinating.
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70The words more than hold their own against the pictures.
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50The film's self-limiting pacifism precludes a closer look at the poetry of war, which is not synonymous with poetry against war.
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50Poorly organized mishmash of archival war films, scholarly chatter, and literary quotations.
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50Its pedagogical tone perfectly suits it for viewing in classrooms.