Straightforward and immensely powerful, the movie offers a blunt assessment of the war from soldiers currently fighting it, and their perspective is not pretty.
75
San Francisco ChronicleJonathan Curiel
San Francisco ChronicleJonathan Curiel
Timeless and tragic.
70
Film ThreatMerle Bertrand
Film ThreatMerle Bertrand
The greatest accomplishment of Occupation: Dreamland is showing those of us on the home front that it really is possible, Republican howling to the contrary aside, to support our troops without supporting the war itself.
Helmers Garrett Scott and Ian Olds offer a sympathetic look at the average Joe doing duty in hell -- as well as a sharp indictment of the Pentagon's cavalier support for the troops.
50
Chicago ReaderFred Camper
Chicago ReaderFred Camper
Filmmakers Garrett Scott and Ian Olds offer a damning chronicle of failure and chaos.
50
New York Post
New York Post
Misleadingly billed as a Fallujah documentary, Occupation: Dreamland covers a six-week period when not much was happening there.