No End in Sight

Time Richard Schickel

Prepare to be riveted: No End in Sight, Charles Ferguson's first film, is without question the most important movie you are likely to see this year.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

Ferguson spotlights two massive mistakes: the looting that was allowed to continue, destroying Iraqi infrastructure and morale; and--far more revelatory -- the apocalyptically stupid decision to disband the Iraqi army, sending half a million angry soldiers into the streets.

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Perhaps the most cogent and straightforward dissection of the Bush Administration missteps leading up to the current Iraq nightmare.

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

May be the best and saddest film of the year so far.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Who is Charles Ferguson, director of this film? A one-time senior fellow of the Brookings Institute, software millionaire, originally a supporter of the war, visiting professor at MIT and Berkeley, he was trustworthy enough to inspire confidences from former top officials.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

The most coolheaded of the Iraq war documentaries, the most methodical and the least polemical. Yet it's the one that will leave audiences the most shattered, angry and astounded.

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

If any movie can rid Americans of "Iraq war fatigue," it's Charles Ferguson's muscular documentary No End in Sight.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Ferguson's film is a clear-sighted counterpoint to the former secretary of defense's impression. As the title suggests, it's a seemingly infinite mess.

Film Threat Rick Kisonak

No End In Sight is the most important film of the year thus far and, more significantly, the most comprehensive, clear-eyed account of the Iraq debacle and the arrogance behind it that we have.

Los Angeles Times Dennis Lim

The result, narrated in a grave monotone by Campbell Scott, is a catalog of horrors so absurd and relentless it verges on farce, or Greek tragedy.

The New Yorker David Denby

Though the facts in No End in Sight are well known, the movie is still a classic.

Village Voice Rob Nelson

Masterfully edited and cumulatively walloping, Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight turns the well-known details of our monstrously bungled Iraq war into an enraging, apocalyptic litany of fuckups.

The New York Times A.O. Scott

It’s a sober, revelatory and absolutely vital film.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

It's enough to make you weep.

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

The most remarkable aspect of Charles Ferguson's lacerating documentary about the U.S. invasion of Iraq is that the film contains virtually no new information, and yet its message is as compelling as if we were hearing it for the first time.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

Lucid, concise and devastating account of what went wrong in Iraq, patiently counts those 500 ways.

TV Guide Ken Fox

The anger that fuels Ferguson's film is felt in nearly every frame.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

The most compelling and least partisan of all the Iraq documentaries.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray

It's a cogent, often infuriating explication of how the execution of the war went awry.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

The film concludes that there's still simply no way out of the forest.

Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan

The first to take a big-picture view of just how the plans for postwar occupation went so far off track.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Ferguson is admirably tenacious in assigning blame for the boneheaded mistakes that have doomed Iraqi reconstruction. Paul Bremer, former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, is hung out to dry.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

Ferguson builds a compelling case of bad judgment, error, stubbornness and arrogance.

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

From the first frames of Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight, replaying some of the oddest and twitchiest podium performances of Donald Rumsfeld during those heady days of spring 2003, you may feel the crushing weight of an almost Sophoclean impending doom.

New York Magazine David Edelstein

A meticulous, thoroughly engrossing lesson in how not to win friends (or wars) and influence people (or potential terrorists).

Variety Robert Koehler

With an accountant's eye for precision and a political scientist's grasp of the machinations that move national policy, Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight itemizes the errors, misjudgments and follies that have defined the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq.

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

May not offer up any fresh revelations, but this effectively assembled documentary puts it all in valuable, if depressing, perspective.

New York Post Kyle Smith

Some documentaries are a fervent search for truth; others are a fervent search for snickers. This one is the latter, providing via interviews and old film clips a Greatest Hits for Bush haters.