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- 88TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxBaer asks all the right questions.
- 75New York PostNew York PostA fascinating history of how blowing yourself up became a popular hobby in the Muslim world.
- 75New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanGiven that fundamentalist faith and sober logic are irreconcilable enemies, though, Baer's analysis inevitably leads to a grim roadblock, at which he can do little more than tally the toll.
- 70Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonThis is not the can't-we-get-along Arab-Persian world we see in most liberal nonfiction films, but a broader and helplessly apocalyptic view of an entire region crazed with anger, frustration, and bloodlust into objectifying death as a weapon, a cause for cosmic glory, and little else.
- 70VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibThoughtful, incisive, controversial.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckAugmenting Baer's interviews with various figures embroiled in the Middle East struggle, including members of Hamas and the Hezbollah, is chilling footage of actual attacks, much of it emanating from the terrorists themselves.
- 60The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisLike so many political films of this type made for British television, this documentary contains more information than analysis, not to mention predictably spooky music.
- 50The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyNear the end of the journey, chronicling Sunni car bombers in Iraq, he (Baer) talks sorrowfully of Muslims killing Muslims, and he concludes that suicide bombing has lost any coherent political meaning and has taken on an irresistible life of its own as a glamorous cult.