Why We Fight Critic Reviews

Mr. Jarecki undercuts his own case -- not just undercuts but carpet-bombs it -- by using the same propaganda techniques he professes to abhor.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

Mr. Jarecki forcefully, if not with wholesale persuasiveness, argues that our business is specifically war.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

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

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

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