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Standard Operating Procedure (2008)

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Standard Operating Procedure (2008) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars

Overall Rating:2.9287

Avg Critic Score:2.9071

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Boxoffice Magazine (Richard Mowe)

His assembly of the material and the protagonists is impressive, but you are left to wonder about his ultimate aim and point of view. ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at Boxoffice Magazine (Richard Mowe)

Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)

Last time out, Morris, the eloquent documentary filmmaker and essayist, presented us with The Fog of War, a portrait of key Vietnam War architect Robert McNamara. The viewpoint revealed some of the inner workings of a sanctioned horror from the top ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)

Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)

[Director] Morris examines the atrocity of Abu Ghraib and the notorious photographs which have come to signify all the tortured secrets contained within that Iraqi prison�s walls. ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)

Village Voice (J. Hoberman)

Since The Thin Blue Line's remarkable intervention, Morris's work has grown more public and more problematic -- lofty yet snide, a form of know-it-all epistemological inquiry. ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at Village Voice (J. Hoberman)

Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)

As powerful as selected moments in the film are, it's not one of Morris' better works. ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)

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St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt)

Extraordinary access to the soldiers involved in â�� and prosecuted for â�� the photography of prisoners of war at Abu Ghraib prison gives Morris a chance to make us question what we think we know. Were the photos edited to delete important details? (Yes. ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt)

San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)

The notorious Abu Ghraib photographs were the jumping-off point for Errol Morris' new documentary, "Standard Operating Procedure." Through interviews with prison guards, some of whom have done time for prisoner abuse, Morris tells the story behind the ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Mick LaSalle)

Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)

Reduces one of the truly horrifying controversies in American military history to an intellectual puzzle. ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at Antagony & Ecstasy (Tim Brayton)

Big Picture Big Sound (David Kempler)

Errol Morris is one of our finest living directors. Because he works almost entirely in the documentary form, he flies under the radar from the general public. He has helped elevate documentaries by adding artistic touches and production values. While ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (David Kempler)

New York Post (Kyle Smith)

THE Errol Morris documen tary on Abu Ghraib is here. That's fair enough: Why shouldn't there be torture porn for readers of The ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at New York Post (Kyle Smith)

Indiewire

Often when it comes to Errol Morris, the more you see, the less you know. ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at Indiewire

Philadelphia Weekly (Sean Burns)

Each successive Morris picture seems to grow glossier and more vague, pushing further into abstraction and incessant macro-lens close-ups of ham-fisted recurring symbols. There's also really annoying music. ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at Philadelphia Weekly (Sean Burns)

Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)

Non-essential Morris. Pick any other documentary to find more interesting and colorful subjects. ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)

Eye for Film (Amber Wilkinson)

Morris says his documentary was being shot before Kennedy's and I have no reason to doubt that work had begun, but here the interviewees seem more polished, more practiced in the telling of their stories, than the still shell-shocked ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at Eye for Film (Amber Wilkinson)

TIME Magazine (Richard Schickel)

All I am arguing here is that Morris's manner of relating this story is very often quite inappropriate to its substance. ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at TIME Magazine (Richard Schickel)

Film Journal International (Ethan Alter)

The lack of a clear narrative arc causes the film to seem repetitive. ...read the complete Standard Operating Procedure movie review at Film Journal International (Ethan Alter)

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