No film can ''capture'' the experience of combat, but this eloquent and moving documentary brings us closer to the emotions (principally boredom and terror) of the soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan than perhaps any previous examination.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Janice Page
Hits far more marks than it misses. And no work has brought viewers deeper inside the psychology of war.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
Operation Homecoming at first seems like a modest enterprise, a document of a few guys' paths to personal catharsis. But the sense of damaged intensity found in all these men's writing -- and found in war lit since the classical age -- builds to a powerful crescendo, and the haunting poem that ends the film, in which the ghosts of American and Iraqi dead confront each other on the banks of the Tigris, is a showstopper.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Ed Gonzalez
These stories of heartache, confusion, and anger combine to form a gallery of art that illuminates the conundrums of warfare and testifies to the philosophical instincts of the American soldier.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
The best pieces portray combat as such a heightened sensory experience that it demands to be written about, and they suggest that war can turn ordinary men who wouldn’t think of keeping diaries into latter-day Hemingways.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Mark Olsen
A project such as Operation Homecoming should shed light on their experiences, but Robbins' film just falls short.Read Full Review »
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