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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettDe Palma's screenplay is outstanding, and he draws wonderfully naturalistic performances from his youthful cast.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe result of the film is shocking, saddening and frustrating.
- 75Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerHe intercuts documentary sequences from a French news crew and also includes Arab website footage of insurgents and YouTube confessions from soldiers who witnessed a barbarous act, which we also see, involving the platoon and a young Iraqi girl. The concept is audacious but the actors are too theatrical.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinAnyone who sees the suffering faces of the victims in "Casualties" and "Redacted" knows that De Palma not only despairs over what he’s showing us but implicates his own medium--his own male gaze--in the crimes against nature.
- 70The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyRedacted is hell to sit through, but I think De Palma is bravely trying to imagine his way inside an atrocity, and that he’s onto something powerful with his multisided approach.
- Like so many of his movies, Redacted is difficult to watch but queasily fascinating.
- 60SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirBrian De Palma's Redacted doesn't quite work as a movie. But it works as SOMETHING.
- 60Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanThe most authentic thing about Redacted is the rage with which it was made.
- 58The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayAs an expression of from-the-gut anti-war rage, Redacted is admirable, but as art, it's undercooked.
- 50VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleyDeeply felt but dramatically unconvincing "fictional documentary" -- inspired by the March 2006 rape and killings by U.S. troops in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad -- has almost nothing new to say about the Iraq situation and can't make up its mind about how to package its anger in an alternative cinematic form.