89
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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Village VoiceVillage VoiceMasterfully edited and cumulatively walloping, Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight turns the well-known details of our monstrously bungled Iraq war into an enraging, apocalyptic litany of fuckups.
- 90The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottIt’s a sober, revelatory and absolutely vital film.
- 88New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsThe most compelling and least partisan of all the Iraq documentaries.
- 83The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayIt's a cogent, often infuriating explication of how the execution of the war went awry.
- 80New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinA meticulous, thoroughly engrossing lesson in how not to win friends (or wars) and influence people (or potential terrorists).
- 80SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirFrom the first frames of Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight, replaying some of the oddest and twitchiest podium performances of Donald Rumsfeld during those heady days of spring 2003, you may feel the crushing weight of an almost Sophoclean impending doom.
- 80Washington PostStephen HunterWashington PostStephen HunterFerguson builds a compelling case of bad judgment, error, stubbornness and arrogance.
- 70VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerWith an accountant's eye for precision and a political scientist's grasp of the machinations that move national policy, Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight itemizes the errors, misjudgments and follies that have defined the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenMay not offer up any fresh revelations, but this effectively assembled documentary puts it all in valuable, if depressing, perspective.
- 63New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithSome documentaries are a fervent search for truth; others are a fervent search for snickers. This one is the latter, providing via interviews and old film clips a Greatest Hits for Bush haters.