I don't like polemics, not even those supporting my position. This film does not support my position...the movie contains far too little in terms of a coherent, believable plot.

| Jan 13, 2018

No doubt borrowing inspiration from real events, Green Zone is a nail-biting story of one man's single mission to uncover the truth, no matter the consequences.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 11, 2017

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Green Zone is the rare miss from frequent collaborators Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass.

| Original Score: C- | May 6, 2011

It's one thing for the filmmakers to (sort of) fictionalize real people, but Green Zone wraps up with a wish-fulfillment fantasy that is about as believable as watching reinforcements riding in to save Custer.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 3, 2011

Paul Greengrass's loud, Damon-driven documentary-style thriller confusingly weaves fact and fiction and whipsaws between various conspiracy theories, while the nonstop action mimics an Xbox splatter game.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 25, 2010

I can't believe people will not go to see Green Zone in their droves. I certainly hope they do, for it is a shocking, replenishing film, not to be missed.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 16, 2010

Greengrass, with his superkinetic camerawork and visceral sense of you-are-there immediacy, pieces together a compelling picture of a ground force trying (and failing) to order a city on the slide towards anarchy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2010

Competent, vivid and more than tokenistically controversial in theme.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 16, 2010

Breathless, yes, but oddly disengaged, in the first Greengrass project yet where you feel he's delivering just on par.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2010

Green Zone has technical flair, but we expect more from Greengrass.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 15, 2010

Green Zone is probably the nearest the Americans will get to the public floggings of the Chilcot Inquiry except there will be popcorn on hand and a far larger audience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 15, 2010

Greengrass concocts a formula with a fighting chance of dispelling the Curse of the Hollywood Iraq Movie. If a picture as conventionally accessible as Green Zone tanks, that campaign is surely lost.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2010

It is a welcome addition to an ongoing post-mortem.

Full Review | Mar 15, 2010

Distills -- not simplifies -- the clashing forces that dashed our chance of peace. Greengrass is economical in his scenes; the film bolts forward like a greyhound chasing a lure.

| Original Score: B | Mar 12, 2010

Reduces policies that caused the deaths of thousands to the equivalent of a first-person-shooter video game.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 12, 2010

It also helps that, despite the fact it doesn't offer up anything new, the story itself is still pretty darn spellbinding.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 12, 2010

Green Zone hits hard and doesn't forgive. It plays out like fiction, and in some ways it is. But in too many ways, it's not.

| Original Score: B | Mar 12, 2010

When Mr. Greengrass made United 93, his 2006 reconstruction of one of the Sept. 11 hijackings, some people fretted that it was too soon. My own response to Green Zone is almost exactly the opposite: it's about time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2010