Timeless and more relevant than ever in the face of permanent US war against the world, Redacted has prophetically conjured a parallel US war, targeting journalists and filmmakers. And in an ironic case of redacting the director and his film as well.

| Sep 10, 2013

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

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 7, 2011

Brian De Palma's feature-length fictionalized polemic, Redacted, expresses its outrage with a ferocity that takes mainstream protest of the Iraq war into new territory.

| Apr 28, 2011

The director's concern is deeply felt, yet it is his old obsession, the camera's unreliability, that still engages him the most

| Aug 27, 2009

We're being manipulated, and the irony is that the filmmaker is trying to prove how manipulated we are by the various interests around the Iraq war

| Nov 14, 2008

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Grant De Palma this much: At least he did not wait until 14 years after hostilities concluded to pull his catch-all war metaphor from the dark cupboard of his psyche.

| Sep 22, 2008

Finally an Iraq War movie done right.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 26, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2008

National Lottery money and Venice Film Festival Silver Lion awards should be going to much more thoughtful films than this.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 14, 2008

The way De Palma stitches this multimedia montage into a damning narrative is cinema at its angry and exhilarating best.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 14, 2008

Feels contrived and serves to highlight the limitations of the no-name cast.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2008

An interesting failure, De Palma's film starts well and has moments of exceptional power but ultimately loses itself in its rambling structure. If you haven't already seen it, you'd probably be better off going back to De Palma's Casualties Of War, which

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 14, 2008

Though the events are gruelingly (and graphically) recreated there's a typical lack of emotional connection which might be forgivable in a thriller but utterly hobbles this supposed cri de coeur. An almost total failure then, but a noble one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 14, 2008

War was ever a Kubrick-ian hell-ride, futile, fundamentally unheroic and de-humanising, but now it's mocked by a mad multimedia accompaniment innocent of all real ethical, moral and humanitarian value.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Mar 14, 2008

Abrave film for De Palma, obviously deeply felt, but the final scene - a steady collage of real pictures of victims of the conflict - offer a more visceral pull than anything that has gone before.

| Mar 14, 2008

A very easy film to dismiss but there is more to it than meets the eye.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 12, 2008

De Palma's made a shattering true crime feel phony

| Original Score: C | Jan 29, 2008