Ultimately, Why We Fight reveals itself as yet another leftie doc with an anti-war agenda. But the mere fact that it takes time to ask questions and listen to opposing viewpoints sets it apart from the pack.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Nov 27, 2006

A film that stands out for its passion, ambition and clarion-call sincerity, even amid the contemporary onslaught of political documentaries.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2006

Extremely timely and urgently relevant.

| Jun 24, 2006

The fact is, Jon Stewart on The Daily Show uncovers this same hypocrisy every night, and does it in two minutes with irony and humor, while Why We Fight attempts it with outrage and scolding.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2006

... canny and somewhat overwhelming documentary ...

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 18, 2006

Eugene Jarecki's Why We Fight takes on enough subjects to make five great documentaries, but as a result is so scattered that it doesn't quite make for one good one.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 15, 2006

It's impossible to imagine anyone, right-leaning or left, coming away from this hugely important documentary unshaken by its representation of the United States and its military establishment.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 24, 2006

More leftist propaganda masquerading as documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 24, 2006

Fluidly edited by Nancy Kennedy, Why We Fight interweaves these personal stories not only with history but with one another, yielding some choice ironies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 18, 2006

The strength of this documentary lies in its balance, or at least the careful appearance of balance. Both sides of the issue receive their due ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 17, 2006

Jarecki seems to have had his answers before asking the questions. He's a master at filtering, at choosing the best quotes to bolster his argument and at connecting dots that, perhaps, shouldn't be.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 17, 2006

After Ike makes his point in the opening minutes, the film itself essentially just elaborates it.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 16, 2006

Why We Fight has passion and ambition and research to spare. Too bad Jarecki didn't take a somewhat fresher, more balanced approach in making his case.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Feb 16, 2006

There is plenty here that should worry members of both political parties.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2006

Even if one disagrees vehemently with Jarecki's interpretations of events and history, it's hard not to be impressed by the rigorousness with which he gathers his arguments.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 10, 2006

A somber polemic that presents a convincing case against using war as an economic booster -- although, Jarecki argues, that is precisely what the United States has been doing under every president since Truman.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 10, 2006

Memo to left-wing anti-Bushies: Stories like this work. Don't lecture. Tell stories! Much better!

| Feb 9, 2006

The film is a clear-headed anomaly of reason that one hopes won't get lost in the bicker-and-scream shuffle of 온라인카지노추천 punditry.

| Original Score: A | Feb 9, 2006

Stands as a class-act stylistic rebuttal to Fahrenheit 9/11 -- it asks questions rather than bludgeons us with ridicule, and it has the grace to hint that we can think for ourselves.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 28, 2006

I would like to believe that we still live in a world, and in a country were people will want to see something and will want to be informed.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2006