War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
Directed by Loretta Alper, Jeremy Earp
Produced by Loretta Alper
Narrated by Sean Penn
Music by Leigh Phillips, John Van Eps
Edited by Andrew Killoy
Release dates
  • May 14, 2007 (2007-05-14)
Running time
 73 minutes
Country United States
Language English

War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death is a 2007 American documentary film. The film is narrated by Sean Penn and is adapted from the book of the same name,[1] authored by Norman Solomon.

Plot

The film attempts to expose how the American government over 50 years has tried to strum up war effort using the media as a tool. "War Made Easy gives special attention to parallels between the Vietnam war and the war in Iraq."[2]

Reception

New York Times columnist Jeannette Catsoulis described War Made Easy as "cinematically inert if ultimately persuasive".[3] V.A. Musetto of the New York Post criticized the film as "conventional and one-sided".[4] Aaron Hillis wrote for The Village Voice that the film is "sobering, straightforward, and a bit drab, but... it's also an entirely nonpartisan endeavor".[5] Variety critic Dennis Harvey credited "Solomon’s astute onscreen analysis" for driving the film.[6]

Rotten Tomatoes rates War Made Easy 88% on the basis of 17 aggregated reviews,[7] and Metacritic rates the film 57 based on 5 reviews.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Goodm an, Amy. "War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death". Democracy Now. Retrieved 13 July 2011.
  2. ↑ "War Made Easy Synopsis". Retrieved 13 July 2011.
  3. ↑ Catsoulis, Jeannette (14 March 2008). "Spinning Conflict". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  4. ↑ Musetto, V.A. (14 March 2008). "WAR MADE EASY". New York Post. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Hillis, Aaron (11 March 2008). "War Made Easy's Nopartisan Iraq-War Skewering". The Village Voice. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  6. ↑ Harvey, Dennis (13 August 2007). "Review: ‘War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death’". Variety. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "War Made Easy". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  8. ↑ "War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 30 November 2014.

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