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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanStraightforward and immensely powerful, the movie offers a blunt assessment of the war from soldiers currently fighting it, and their perspective is not pretty.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleJonathan CurielSan Francisco ChronicleJonathan CurielTimeless and tragic.
- 70Film ThreatMerle BertrandFilm ThreatMerle BertrandThe greatest accomplishment of Occupation: Dreamland is showing those of us on the home front that it really is possible, Republican howling to the contrary aside, to support our troops without supporting the war itself.
- 70The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasA powerful documentary about a squad of Army grunts patrolling the Iraqi city of Fallujah in late 2004.
- 70Village VoiceJoshua LandVillage VoiceJoshua LandA fair-minded (but hardly apolitical) grunt's-eye view of the war in Iraq that trusts the audience to draw its own conclusions.
- Occupation: Dreamland presents a compelling study of composure and decency in the midst of overwhelming pointlessness.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterTheir stories add up to an unflattering picture of how the U.S. chooses its soldiers.
- 50Chicago ReaderFred CamperChicago ReaderFred CamperFilmmakers Garrett Scott and Ian Olds offer a damning chronicle of failure and chaos.
- 50New York PostNew York PostMisleadingly billed as a Fallujah documentary, Occupation: Dreamland covers a six-week period when not much was happening there.