| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2006

The voices of these brave young people reverberate hauntingly.

Full Review | Sep 21, 2006

Mostly a string of talking-head interviews, but those talking heads -- more than 16 men and women -- are compelling.

| Sep 15, 2006

It's a haunting and welcome addition to the growing library of war documentaries; one that wisely lets its subjects speak for themselves.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2006

The Ground Truth powerfully documents the human cost of the Iraq war.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2006

Those vets certainly deserve to be heard, but virtually every scene of the film tells us something we already knew.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 15, 2006

This thoughtful, sensitive film, perhaps the most emotionally wrenching of all the Iraq documentaries, could have been made after any war.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2006

I don't pretend to understand the pressures facing U.S. troops in Iraq, but I feel a little closer after witnessing The Ground Truth.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2006

Films like Top Gun and newscasts of 9/11 motivated some Americans to enlist. Thoughtful documentaries like The Ground Truth urge the rest of us to shoulder the consequences.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 15, 2006

The documentary any American with an opinion on our involvement in Iraq owes it to his or her conscience to see.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 15, 2006

Among the many virtues of Patricia Foulkrod's immensely moving documentary about veterans of the Iraq war is the measure it takes of how far we have come since Vietnam in sympathy for American soldiers who serve abroad.

Full Review | Sep 14, 2006

Even if you endorse the director's bullish peacenik stance, you may feel like picking an argument, for the unique thrill that only ambiguity can deliver.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 14, 2006

Amid the continuing deluge of documentaries about the war in Iraq, Patricia Foulkrod's film The Ground Truth stands out as an especially pointed indictment of the American military's treatment of its own people on and off the battlefield.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 14, 2006

Thanks largely to the brutal honesty of its subjects, The Ground Truth transcends the protest genre and delivers a much broader cautionary tale.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 14, 2006

Patricia Foulkrod's film backs itself into a Support Our Troops corner, elegizing the soldiers. Iraqis do not figure in, except as bad memories.

Full Review | Sep 13, 2006

A vital reminder of the monumental, lingering toll war takes on its participants.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2006

Patricia Foulkrod's documentary is barely a work of art, visually unseemly and struggling for a significant throughline, but as a polemic it has the urgency of stray sniper fire.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 6, 2006

The substance of the movie is potent, and so powerfully presented by those who have fought and are still fighting a controversial war, that the message of Ground Truth cannot be dismissed.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2006

A stunning statement on how we mistreat our best and bravest young men.

Full Review | Jan 22, 2006