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Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: It's hard to watch, and should be. But harder for other reasons. As an experiment in storytelling, it's mainly tedious and phony. Read more
Tasha Robinson, Chicago Tribune: It's an effective experiment and a hackle-raising drama, and it's far better controlled than De Palma's last film, the flailing noir mess The Black Dahlia. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Redacted might have been more compelling if De Palma had redacted himself a bit -- if he hadn't been so overt, if he'd given us enough credit to think for ourselves and come to our own conclusions about these men and the choices they made. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: It shows rare courage in protesting the widespread abuse of innocent Iraqis, but its pseudodocumentary form is full of awkward misfires and its acting is often terrible. Read more
Noel Murray, AV Club: As an expression of from-the-gut anti-war rage, Redacted is admirable, but as art, it's undercooked. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A crude, unbearably smug attempt to provoke outrage from a filmmaker desperate to be relevant again. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: This film is kind of a mess. Even if you agree with its politics, you will probably weep at the ineptitude of it all. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The concept is audacious but the actors are too theatrical. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Redacted, director Brian DePalma's ugly little Iraq War movie, wastes an interesting approach on trite, crude and painfully superficial content. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It is simply so amateurish and overacted that it makes it impossible to become invested in the documentary-like reality De Palma hopes to achieve. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: De Palma's made a shattering true crime feel phony Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: If righteous indignation was the most direct highway to art, Redacted would be his masterpiece. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: If you're trying to make us believe we're watching 'reality' by using a faux documentary style, you need actors who never look like they are acting, and this is where Redacted stumbles. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: Redacted is hell to sit through, but I think De Palma is bravely trying to imagine his way inside an atrocity, and that he's onto something powerful with his multisided approach. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Critics have called the movie crude and punishing. All right, the defense concedes all that, but the movie does a harrowing job of depicting the psychological toll of the occupation on both Iraqis and U.S. soldiers. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Often powerfully engaging, and always deeply felt. And it marks the full-fledged return of a filmmaker long in artistic exile. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: More significant in its sense of purpose than its uneven execution. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: De Palma is extreme, visceral, usually in bad taste but almost always riveting. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Curiously, Mr. De Palma makes very little effort to comprehend the wrongdoers in his version of Iraq. Their vile language and clear class inferiority distance them from any pity or understanding from the average audience member. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: DePalma's movie offers its own doctoring and processing, without delivering an ounce of real humanity -- good or bad -- in the bargain. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The result of the film is shocking, saddening and frustrating. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Of all the war-themed pictures that have been released so far this fall, it stands apart, and it stands alone: Redacted is confrontational, rough, immediate and confounding. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Even at its most blatantly manipulative, Redacted provokes a response of rage, disgust and anger. De Palma strives to ignite passion, and while some of that passion may end up directed at the film itself, Redacted is an antidote to apathy. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: I think it's safe to suggest no other war could have produced a movie like this. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Where Casualties of War had the swooning formal elegance of an opium dream, Redacted adopts the fractured fitfulness of a seizure. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: The movie is a cry of national shame; for [director] De Palma, it's a new badge of honor for a wily old vet. Read more
Wally Hammond, Time Out: 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. Read more
Christopher Orr, The New Republic: 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. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: The most authentic thing about Redacted is the rage with which it was made. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Although Redacted has intensity and seriousness of purpose, it brings us no closer to, or even thoughtfully further away from, its subject. Read more