The dramatic movie entertains and startles the viewer throughout an 89 minute entertaining experience.

| Jul 21, 2021

A good deal of the film, including perhaps its most memorable portions, is devoted to the processes which make the marines capable of carrying out their murderous assault.

| Feb 13, 2021

This is one of the landmark films of this seminal point in our history, crying out not only for peace, but for understanding.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 2019

| Original Score: A | Sep 7, 2011

| Original Score: A | Oct 10, 2010

A bold effort to grapple with what truth lies behind these images, rather than to simply throw one's hands up in the face of them

| Aug 8, 2009

Unable or unwilling to acknowledge or comprehend this trauma, the U.S. command structure is indicted no matter what it says.

| Jul 3, 2008

Previous films such as "Gunners Palace" and the more famous "War Tapes" gave us intimate footage of the day to day danger and tedium of the war, but no film has shown both sides with the power and accuracy of "Battle for Haditha"

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 17, 2008

Lacking in subtlety and nuance, Broomfield's nerve-jangling movie nonetheless succeeds in showing the war from various vantage points. And from wherever one's standing, the view is profoundly disturbing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 30, 2008

Films about the Iraq war continue to come and, I hope, will keep coming. Among the most recent, The Battle for Haditha is especially notable.

Full Review | May 27, 2008

Broomfield very effectively balances these storylines with superb cutting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2008

Remember when your mother warned that playing video games would desensitize you to violence? Now witness Exhibit A: a docudrama showcasing Generation Kill's all volunteer army in all its glory.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 12, 2008

It might just be the movie this war has been waiting for.

| May 9, 2008

There's a size and scope to the film we haven't seen in Broomfield's prior work that shows him capable of creating a piece of cinema on par with Michael Winterbottom's films.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 9, 2008

Unsubtle but gripping, Battle For Haditha illustrates how a military that treats every man, woman, and child as a potential enemy can soon find that such thinking constitutes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

| Original Score: B | May 8, 2008

I can't begin to describe how creepy this futuristic movie is.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2008

If Broomfield hoped to shed some light on what happened at Haditha beyond our worst preconceptions, he's failed.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 7, 2008

In Battle for Haditha the British filmmaker Nick Broomfield revisits a wretched chapter of the war in Iraq.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 7, 2008

The killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. marines in November 2005 is still so clouded by cover-up that the last thing anyone needs now is an improvised drama about the tragedy by UK gonzo documentarian Nick Broomfield.

| May 7, 2008

This film by Nick Broomfield, which superficially resembles Brian De Palma's Redacted in that it is a mockumentary based on real, horrible events, is a 90-minute libel against the Marine Corps.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 7, 2008