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Dirty Wars (15)

Documentary, Drama

Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.

More information on this production is available at dirtywars.org.

The critical consensus

Not great cinema by any stretch, but amply informative and thought-provoking.

***(*)(*)David Jenkins, Little White Lies, 28/11/2013

Though awkwardly assembled, with an overemphatic voiceover, it’s chilling stuff.

***(*)(*)Matt Glasby, Total Film, 25/11/2013

Dirty Wars doesn't pretend to be balanced or neutral. Its position is one of anger and disbelief at the extra-judicial assassinations of men, women and children, some of them American citizens, who can't be defined as terrorists at all.

****(*)Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 29/11/2013

Should be more shocking than it is.

***(*)(*)Nigel Andrews, Financial Times, 28/11/2013

The movie has rather silly, Bourne-style thriller graphics, which are unnecessary: it has an important story to tell.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 28/11/2013

Jeremy Scahill reports on the war on terror in a documentary that is fascinating about the United States’ use of targeted assassinations and drone strikes, but less compelling whenever it tries to make Scahill its focus instead of its narrator.

***(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 06/01/2014

It’s scary stuff, and though director Richard Rowley sometimes milks the thriller overtones too forcefully, Scahill explores the subject with admirable clarity.

****(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 11/01/2014

Where and when?

Cameo, Edinburgh on Monday December 2, 2013. More info: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/

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