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Restrepo

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Restrepo reviews
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8.5 User Score:

Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary  |  War

Written by:

Directed by: Tim Hetherington
Sebastian Junger

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 25, 2010

Running Time: 93 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for language throughout including some descriptions of violence

A feature-length documentary that chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soliders in Afghanisatn'ss Korengal Valley. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, Restrepo, named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the US military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley: there are no interviews with the generals or diplomats. The only goal is to make viewers feel as if they have just been through a 90-minute deployment. This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you. (Passion Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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100

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

This movie will stir your heart and open your mind. It's a group portrait of practicing patriots.

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100

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

There is the sense they’re fighting for each other more than for ideology.

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100

St. Petersburg Times Steve Persall

Restrepo is about soldiers, not politics. The question of whether U.S. troops belong there isn't posed. Their devotion to duty and each other is unquestioned.

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91

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Because the war in Afghanistan is so much in the news now – it should always have been so – a movie like Restrepo is both a bracing document and, in a larger sense, a disappointment.

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91

The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray

Restrepo can be tedious at times and nerve-racking at others, but why shouldn’t it be? That’s exactly what Junger and Hetherington saw on the front lines, so that’s what they show, with very little filter.

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90

New York Magazine David Edelstein

The film is a nearly unrelenting nightmare. Even interviews shot with the survivors after the fact have a current of dread.

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90

Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

What Restrepo does so dramatically, so convincingly, is make the abstract concrete, giving the soldiers on the front lines faces and voices.

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90

The New York Times A.O. Scott

As the war in Afghanistan returns to the front pages and the national debate, we owe the men in Restrepo, at the very least, 90 minutes or so of our attention. If nothing else, this film, in showing how much they care about one another, demands the same of us.

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90

Boxoffice Magazine Pam Grady

The filmmakers have created a wrenching piece of work that allows the viewer to draw his own conclusions-and should make anyone of whatever political persuasion think about exactly what they mean when claiming to "support the troops."

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90

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

Junger and Hetherington take our conflicted ideas about war and its let's-make-a-man-out-of-you purpose and throw them in our faces, in a way "Hurt Locker" never does.

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89

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Restrepo is an example of photojournalism at its finest.

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88

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

According to this courageous, you-are-there documentary, the platoon took enemy fire almost every day, perhaps the longest exposure to combat the U.S. has engaged in since World War II.

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88

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

The film is unusually free of cant and the usual trappings of war docs. There is no voice-over narration and very little dramatic underscoring. Right or wrong, the filmmakers shave matters of political policy and contextual analysis clean off the finished product, which runs a tight 94 minutes.

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88

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

It gives such a down-to-Earth view of the joys, terrors, boredom, anxieties and camaraderie in a war zone.

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88

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Holleman

If you're looking for a political message, either for or against U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, this is not your movie. The directors were satisfied with telling us about a group of courageous, honorable young soldiers — a salute these men richly deserve.

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88

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A gut-wrenching, politically neutral documentary that spends more than a year with a platoon of American GIs in a valley that's been called the most dangerous spot on Earth.

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85

Movieline Stephanie Zacharek

The low-key quality of the filmmaking in Restrepo only intensifies the reality of how much these kids are risking.

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83

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

You can’t help but share the feelings, many of them subrational, that coarse through the soldiers as they live a hellish year in a hellish place.

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80

Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz

Engagement with the enemy isn't a possibility here. It's a certainty. The unit will face fire daily, sometimes as often as four or five times. The stress is incredible, the courage displayed even more so.

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80

Village Voice Rob Nelson

For a movie that's both a study and a product of blood, sweat, and tears, an oft-cited mid-'60s quote from film and combat vet Samuel Fuller seems to apply: "Film is a battlefield," Fuller said in Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou. "There's love, hate, action, violence, death. In a word: emotions."

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80

Time Out New York Joshua Rothkopf

Stripped to a minimum of editorializing (but, like "The Hurt Locker," flush with sympathy), this Afghanistan-shot war documentary takes its cues from the unblinking style of cinema verité.

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80

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

The movie premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, too soon to include a tragic denouement: in April the U.S. command surrendered the Korangal Valley to the Taliban.

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75

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The movie puts us so close to so much yet keeps its emotional distance -- as if to say, no matter how much we see, we’ll never truly know.

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75

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

The filmmakers offer no commentary. We watch. And what we see is explosive, deeply moving and impossible to shake.

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75

New York Observer Sara Vilkomerson

A documentary so real and unflinching (and at times deeply frightening) that it's hard to watch, but it is one of those film experiences that you'll feel glad about getting through.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Watching the film one comes away feeling the bond that links these guys.

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70

The Hollywood Reporter John DeFore

In-depth account of Army deployment in an Afghanistan hotspot shows soldiering at its most rugged.

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70

Variety John Anderson

But despite its remarkably intimate footage of war and loss, Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington's documentary suffers from the same problem as the ongoing U.S. drama in Afghanistan: a lack of narrative coherence.

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67

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

It's doubtful you'll ever see a combat documentary that channels the chaos of war as thoroughly as this one.

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60

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

Even after experiencing the film, what they've gone through - and how they deal with it - deliberately remains a mystery.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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