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Hell and Back Again has not been reviewed by Broad National Press
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...more unvarnished and ambiguous [than other wounded-in-Iraq-or-Afghanistan-accounts], which makes it more disturbing.... You can feel just how jarring and stressful it must be for a soldier to go from the life-and-death adrenaline rush of war to the maddeningly slow world of rehabilitation and forced inactivity." (Read the full review...) 307 words, 10/05/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "As vital as the best war chronicles to come out in recent years... one every American ought to see." (Read the full review...) 147 words, 10/07/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a full-circle portrait of rare psychological immediacy and even rarer aesthetic command..." (Read the full review...) 254 words, 10/14/11 V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "[Director Danfung] Dennis refuses to push a political agenda down viewers' throats. But the message of his film -- a breathlessly paced look at the realities of war -- is clear: War and its aftermath are indeed hell." (Read the full review...) 364 words, 10/05/11 Michelle Orange, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...unblinking is the focus on [Afghanistan war vet Nathan] Harris's desperation to get back to what he was trained since the age of 18 to do: killing people.... Shot in stunning, khaki-crisp digital with the Canon 5D Mark II, a Marine's eyes have never looked this blue, nor blood so red." (Read the full review...) 305 words, 10/05/11
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...packs a lot into a little documentary, switching between intense Afghan war footage and scenes of the slower-moving, but no less intense, stateside recovery of its subject, wounded Marine Sgt. Nathan Harris. It's filled, quite literally, with blood, sweat and tears." (Read the full review...) 542 words, 11/18/11 Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a superb, violent, jarring and daring documentary about the war in Afghanistan, lays bare the truth of war - its hellish quality - with such power, you're not likely to look at this, or any other conflict, the same way again." (Read the full review...) 217 words, 11/04/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an ingenious artistic disturbance. It's a combat film and a coming-home movie.... [Danfung] Dennis's film attempts something few documentaries have: to inhabit the psyche of its subject." (Read the full review...) 827 words, 01/06/12 Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "...may be the closest most civilians ever get to the reality of the war in Afghanistan..." (Read the full review...) 171 words, 10/21/11
Michelle Orange, Village Voice/LA Weekly: EXCELLENT "...unblinking is the focus on [Afghanistan war vet Nathan] Harris's desperation to get back to what he was trained since the age of 18 to do: killing people.... Shot in stunning, khaki-crisp digital with the Canon 5D Mark II, a Marine's eyes have never looked this blue, nor blood so red." (Read the full review...) 305 words, 10/05/11 Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...a potent documentary correlative to the narrative of 'The Hurt Locker'.... the real-life story of a young marine, Sergeant Nathan Harris, who is brilliant and an inspiring leader in battle but lost and dazed on the home front..." (Read the full review...) 132 words, 01/05/12 Alison Willmore, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a devastating profile of a soldier." (Read the full review...) 444 words, 10/06/11 Lauren Wissot, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...isn't content to merely capture warriors in combat.... follows an injured Sgt. Nathan Harris all the way from Afghanistan to his home in North Carolina, where his wife and high school sweetheart Ashley is helping to reconstruct their former lives.... becomes a universal soldier's story." (Read the full review...) 616 words, 10/02/11
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...more unvarnished and ambiguous [than other wounded-in-Iraq-or-Afghanistan-accounts], which makes it more disturbing.... You can feel just how jarring and stressful it must be for a soldier to go from the life-and-death adrenaline rush of war to the maddeningly slow world of rehabilitation and forced inactivity." (Read the full review...) 307 words, 10/05/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a full-circle portrait of rare psychological immediacy and even rarer aesthetic command..." (Read the full review...) 254 words, 10/14/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: OUTSTANDING "...a lyrical and humane film in the finest documentary tradition, which honors its subjects by telling their story with great dignity and painful clarity and leaving judgment to history." (Read the full review...) 909 words, 10/06/11
Robert Koehler, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "...vigorously embraces a grunt's eye view of war and its aftereffects.... It's the achievement of 'Hell and Back Again' that what sounds to the civilian like macho boasting or emotional cover is in fact the honest truth." (Read the full review...) 523 words, 01/25/11 Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter: OUTSTANDING "...gut-wrenching, tender... brilliantly edited by Fiona Otway, who interconnects the Afghan front-line battle scenes with the home-front struggles with coherent eloquence." (Read the full review...) 549 words, 01/30/11 Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...a full-circle portrait of rare psychological immediacy and even rarer aesthetic command..." (Read the full review...) 254 words, 10/14/11 Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: VERY GOOD "...more unvarnished and ambiguous [than other wounded-in-Iraq-or-Afghanistan-accounts], which makes it more disturbing.... You can feel just how jarring and stressful it must be for a soldier to go from the life-and-death adrenaline rush of war to the maddeningly slow world of rehabilitation and forced inactivity." (Read the full review...) 307 words, 10/05/11
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