No End in Sight Reviews
The first great documentary of 2007.
| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020
The "Eureka" moment in Charles Ferguson's exhaustive catalogue of our government's screw-ups is an Iraqi man crying at the sight of a burned-out building...
| May 26, 2020
[A] bracing documentary that asserts what most of us already know: The Iraq war has been a travesty.
| Jan 28, 2020
Charles Ferguson's gripping No End in Sight relies on former Bush administration officials to make the case that in its earliest stages the American military operation in Iraq was catastrophically mismanaged.
| Nov 30, 2017
Ferguson's film is intelligence-report methodical, providing a primer on how we got into Iraq and what screw-ups have made the situation spiral out of control.
| Apr 18, 2016
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011
| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2011
There's no shortage of opinion, but what Ferguson is aiming for in this fascinating 102-minute dissection is a professional critique of foreign policy.
| Apr 28, 2011
A persuasive argument that the inception of, and response to, the Iraq War perverted America's ideals and intellect. Its moderate temperament hides obvious roars: Remembering outrage is all that will keep this from again occurring unopposed.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 19, 2010
A thorough, level-headed examination of the Bush administration's failure to properly prepare for, and execute, the war.
| Original Score: B+ | Aug 10, 2008
| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008
It doesn't matter if you're a news junkie or clueless about current events, you need to see this movie.
| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 24, 2008
No End is Sight is the product of a calmly systematic desire for knowledge, and as such, does not offer solutions, only profound insight.
| May 18, 2008
Lucidly, dramatically and without resorting to partisan rhetoric, Charles Ferguson's not-to-be-missed documentary "No End in Sight" lays out in convincing, appalling detail the disastrous missteps of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
| Apr 7, 2008
By the time No End in Sight gets to a late chapter titled "Things Fall Apart," you'll believe that call could have been made a long time ago.
Full Review | Feb 29, 2008
a horror show guaranteed to make you mad
| Original Score: A- | Feb 18, 2008
Well-constructed and well-researched documentary which methodically lays out the groundwork for what went wrong in Iraq.
| Original Score: B | Jan 11, 2008
Watching the film, which is well-organized but utterly artless, one wonders who, exactly, it's trying to sway.
| Original Score: 39/100 | Jan 7, 2008
Charles Ferguson's film may be the best, and the final word on the subject.
| Dec 13, 2007
For anyone who's wondering why we're still stuck in Iraq, give this quick 100-minuter a whirl and get filled in.
| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 25, 2007