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Shock and Awe

2017

Rob Reiner

Woody Harrelson, James Marsden, Richard Schiff, Tommy Lee Jones ...

5.6

620

Drama A group of journalists covering George W. Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction".

	Author	Review
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"The shock feels less than shocking and the awe less than awesome in Rob Reiner’s righteously motivated but clunkily executed exposé of media manipulation"	NEG
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"The message tends to melt into a paint-by-numbers screenplay that pushes too many genre buttons to be thoroughly exciting (...) The dialogue is fast and amusing"	NEU
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"A film in which good intentions outweigh style and execution (...) The film is most enjoyable when it is most irreverent"	NEU
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"It’s hard to make journalism entertaining on-screen. Rob Reiner’s latest drama tries — and fails (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Derek Smith Slant	"In a world of many shades, 'Shock and Awe' sees only in black and white, never moving beyond puerile notions of good and evil (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Alan Scherstuhl Village Voice	"'Shock and Awe' is jittery at first, uneven in its rhythms, overawed by its history (...) Reiner’s film is too Reiner to pass for history, but it’s awfully gratifying."	NEU

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