Tribeca 2008: War, Inc

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 Tribeca 2008: War, Inc
War, Inc is a debacle. Starring, co-written and produced by John Cusack, it’s an impotent, cheap-looking political satire that longs for relevance, but feels years stale. (It has, in fact, been around for awhile––it was once titled Brand Hauser , it went into production in fall 2006 , it was rumored to have been set up for premiere slots at both Toronto 2007 and Sundance 2008 , ... (link)

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John Cusack Disaster Reaffirms Iraq Films' Special Place in America's Heart [Everyone's A Critic]
Published 4/29/2008 by STV at Defamer
... Films like this and Redacted and Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? exist to make their makers feel good about their own political correctness, and content that their razor-thin world views are accurate and viable, when in fact they represent a tiny fraction of the bigger picture. This is not activism—this is self-congratulation. — Karina Longworth, Spout Blog ...

Cusack in the Tank
Published 4/29/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
Cusack in the Tank As Defamer's sum-up points out, Jon Cusack 's War, Inc. has gone into the tank after showing at the Tribeca Film Festival. Reviews from N.Y. Post critic Lou Lumenick , Spoutblog 's Karina Longworth and the Hollywood Reporter 's Frank Sheck are viewable for all to see. But HE reader Joseph Kay has something interesting to say besides. "Apologies if you've covered/couldn't care less about this, but John Cusack's War, Inc. silently crept into theaters here in Toronto this ...

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John Cusack Disaster Reaffirms Iraq Films' Special Place in America's Heart [Everyone's A Critic]

John Cusack's meander through his second-consecutive anti-war film is coming under heavy fire at the Tribeca Film Festival, where War, Inc . bowed this week to the kinds of reviews that made his previous Iraq entry — the $50,899-grossing Grace ...
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Tribeca: 'War' is Hell

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