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8 May 2008 2:06 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

No one ever accused Nick Broomfield of being a particularly elegant filmmaker. A certain studied clumsiness is central to his whole aesthetic. In documentaries like Kurt & Courtney and Aileen Wuornos: The Selling Of A Serial Killer, Broomfield, the sly Columbo of non-fiction filmmakers, calculatingly plays the fool so that his sleazy subjects will let their guards down and let the ugliness and greed at the core of their being ooze out. With its occasionally stilted acting and clumsy dialogue, Broomfield's scrappy new docudrama Battle For Haditha sometimes feels like an amateur remake of Jarhead. Yet it ultimately derives much of its primal power from its bluntness and simplicity. Like Broomfield's documentary work, it stumbles purposefully onto harsh truths about the ugliness of human nature. Based on the Haditha killings and filmed documentary-style using former servicemen and a rough outline instead of a detailed script, Battle For Haditha... »

- Nathan Rabin

1 article from 2008