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About the search for common ground, among journalists on all sides of the conflict and, through them, between viewers in America and the Arab world. Only within that common ground, Noujaim believes, can something like a workable, personal truth be found.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe

One of the year’s most significant films.Full Review

Jonathan Curiel
San Francisco Chronicle

Compelling docu about the independent Arab news service, Al Jazeera.Full Review

Variety

May be most valuable for its depiction of the strength of democratic ideals, even in the most precarious and contradictory of circumstances.Full Review

Ann Hornaday
Washington Post

Whatever your opinions about the war, the conduct of the journalists who covered it and the role of Al Jazeera in that coverage, you are likely to emerge from Control Room touched, exhilarated and a little off-balance, with your certainties scrambled and your assumptions shaken.Full Review

Dana Stevens
The New York Times
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