Control Room leave viewers susceptible to the deceptions of politicians and media charlatans.

| Jun 28, 2019

Fascinating documentary for mature older teens+.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2010

"Control Room" acknowledges wartime journalism sits between objectivity and propaganda, indifference and passion. Neutrality doesn't exist; to avoid gore is a stance. In a way, it's 온라인카지노추천's true reality - the impossibility of objective footage of horror.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2010

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

Is simply up to what all journalists should be about in the face of a corporatized, monolithic media - ruffling feathers. This advisory couldn't have come sooner.

Full Review | May 21, 2007

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 9, 2006

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Explores the difficulties that journalists face in a war situation better than most films do.

| Original Score: B | Feb 1, 2005

Em um ano que gerou timos filmes como F9/11, Bush's Brain, The Hunting of the President e Outfoxed, este ainda se destaca como o mais eloqente.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 31, 2005

[E]xplodes the myth of objectivity... [but] leaves you with the very hopeful feeling that there's a wide middle ground that has room for all perspectives.

| Jan 12, 2005

Movies don't reveal the truth, but good ones like this can provide an intimate and nuanced glimpse at some alternative reality.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Jan 8, 2005

Yes, the filmmakers ultimately lean left, but it's the U.S. military's PR guy, Josh Rushing, who stands out as the strongest and most likable personality.

Full Review | Jan 4, 2005

Iraqis don't question the military power of the U.S., but rightly have plenty of evidence to question its wisdom

| Original Score: B | Nov 15, 2004

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 7, 2004

It might at least make you stop and think the next time you hear something on the news that's presented as gospel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2004

In the words of an Al Jazeera producer: 'Rumsfeld calls this ''incitement.'' I call it true journalism.'

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 3, 2004

Noujaim has done better than most of us at being in the right places at the right times to catch the imperial machinery in its most vulnerable, damning moments.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 29, 2004

Bush and Rumsfeld have called Al-Jazeera "the mouthpiece of Osama Bin-Laden." You might find truth to that statement next to Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

Full Review | Aug 19, 2004

Shines most brightly when it's exploring unexpected ambiguities.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 12, 2004