Why We Fight Critic Reviews

Jarecki is no glib ideologue thumbing his nose at power.Read the full review

Picture sets the gold standard for political documentaries.Read the full review

An agit-doc of unusual depth. It has a point -- that the primary business of America over the past half-century has been waging war -- and it supports that point with nuance, research, and a willingness to hear the other side of the argument.Read the full review

Why We Fight deserves high praise for making it that much tougher to wear blinders.Read the full review

Memo to left-wing anti-Bushies: Stories like this work. Don't lecture. Tell stories! Much better!Read the full review

The result isn't quite a Michael Moore movie without the hubris, but it's reasonably close. It's thoughtful, and you have to take it seriously and with respect.Read the full review

A somber polemic that presents a convincing case against using war as an economic booster -- although, Jarecki argues, that is precisely what the United States has been doing under every president since Truman.Read the full review

Ultimately, Why We Fight reveals itself as yet another leftie doc with an anti-war agenda. But the mere fact that it takes time to ask questions and listen to opposing viewpoints sets it apart from the pack.Read the full review

The long line of recent muckraking documentaries that has preceded Why We Fight does nothing to diminish its force.Read the full review