When is a startling and devastating war movie made in the past too long ago to shed light on the present? Well, apparently never, if we're talking permanent war characterizing the endless US invasions and occupations around the world.

| Aug 4, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

The doc gets up-close and personal. It shows one injured vet's reality after war.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 18, 2008

Whatever you think of the film, Body of War stirs up real admiration for its subject.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: A | Oct 18, 2008

"Body of War" is so simple-minded and ham-handed in its case against the war that it ends up diluting its own argument.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 18, 2008

Body of War is a powerful and effective documentary because it keeps its focus very tight and makes its story vivid in personal terms.

| Jun 8, 2008

The lack of ego and relatively little self-pity [wheelchair-bound Tomas] Young has is astounding.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 4, 2008

Donahue and Spiro should've spent more time exploring the human moments and much less time browbeating us with stuff we already know.

Full Review | May 21, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2008

It's an unusually intimate portrait.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2008

[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.'

| May 16, 2008

Body of War again demonstrates that we Americans still have some bitter truths to face.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2008

It is not merely an antiwar document, but a complex profile in courage of a paraplegic and patriot.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 2, 2008

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 25, 2008

On the lower tier of the numerous docs about the war and the Middle East.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2008

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.

| Apr 24, 2008

A tough, affecting documentary about an American soldier in the Iraq war.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 18, 2008