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04/23/09
Body of War (2008)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:27
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: Unapologetically political, this intimate and heart wrenching profile of an Iraq veteran may be rough around the edges but takes a potent stance with determination and compassion.
Runtime: 87 mins
Genre: Theatrical Release
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Tomas Young is another casualty of the war in Iraq. After less than a week on duty, a bullet wound to the back left him paralyzed. This emotional documentary follows the veteran as he returns home... [More]
Director: Ellen Spiro, Phil Donahue
Reviews for Body of War
The doc gets up-close and personal. It shows one injured vet's reality after war.
11/18/08
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10/18/08
Whatever you think of the film, Body of War stirs up real admiration for its subject.
10/18/08
"Body of War" is so simple-minded and ham-handed in its case against the war that it ends up diluting its own argument.
07/18/08
Body of War is a powerful and effective documentary because it keeps its focus very tight and makes its story vivid in personal terms.
06/08/08
The lack of ego and relatively little self-pity [wheelchair-bound Tomas] Young has is astounding.
06/04/08
Donahue and Spiro should've spent more time exploring the human moments and much less time browbeating us with stuff we already know.
05/21/08
It's the soldier in Iraq who fights on in the face of public apathy at home. The hope in this vital film is that the voices of soldiers will be raised. They will fight on until their mission is accomplished and the Iraq war is history.
05/18/08
It's an unusually intimate portrait.
05/16/08
[Tomas Young] deserves better treatment from the government than he's gotten as a returning veteran, and a better movie than this simpleminded indictment of every senator who voted 'yea.'
05/16/08
Body of War again demonstrates that we Americans still have some bitter truths to face.
05/16/08
Top CriticThe overreaching Spiro and Donahue are not content to persuade viewers; they insist on convincing us.
05/15/08
It is not merely an antiwar document, but a complex profile in courage of a paraplegic and patriot.
05/02/08
Body of War makes no bones about its activism. Then again, like the others, it's the willingness to contextualize events and apply reason to them that makes it and others so valuable.
04/25/08
Top CriticOn the lower tier of the numerous docs about the war and the Middle East.
04/24/08
Body of War is neither the most cinematic nor the most elegantly crafted of recent Iraq war documentaries, but that doesn’t stop it from being one of the most deeply affecting.
04/24/08
A tough, affecting documentary about an American soldier in the Iraq war.
04/18/08
A chance to witness the struggles of a remarkable young man. Young may be paralyzed in the body, but his mind is fiercely alive.
04/18/08
Half an excellent and touching profile of a young veteran, but unfortunately, half a strident anti-war propaganda film.
04/17/08
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