2017 · history · drama · thriller
Shock and Awe
Directed by Rob Reiner1h 30m2017
A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."
Our read: Shock and Awe (2017) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded history · drama · thriller entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, gentle history / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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