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GreenCine Daily - ”Drenched in emotion and suffused with good intentions, Body of War is impossible not to like, but difficult to admire,” writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. “Produced and directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue (yes, that Phil Donahue), the movie uses the wrenching story of one American soldier to mount an angry if unfocused jeremiad against the war in Iraq.”
“Body of War is neither the most cinematic nor the most elegantly crafted of recent Iraq War documentaries, but that doesn’t stop it from being one of the most deeply affecting,” writes Scott Foundas in the Voice.
“Body of War is a gut-wrenching documentary experience, though like any effective polemic, it is almost as canny as it is facile in construction,” writes Ed Gonzalez in Slant. “This humane project probably bites off more than it’s able to fully chew in 87 minutes, but it chews well enough: In addition to documenting Thomas’s injuries and how their extent was acerbated by military negligence, it catches startling glimpses of people within his family caught in ideological tug of wars that miraculously don’t get in the way of their love for one another.”… [Full Story]
