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Men Who Stare at Goats, The (2009) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Men Who Stare at Goats, The (2009) a score of 2.4995 out of 4

based on (95) reviews

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Excellent

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Very Good

(53)

Good

(30)

Fair

(6)

Poor

(1)

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Boxoffice Magazine

At once optimistic about what the military could do if it replaced its guns with flowers, and cynical about what the non-believers and opportunists can - and did - do to that dream...read the complete Men Who Stare at Goats, The (2009) review at Boxoffice Magazine

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Channel 4 Film

Cue some pretty amusing scenes, which also explain the film's title (as one of Cassady's more notorious tricks was to be able to stare at a goat until its heart stopped)....read the complete Men Who Stare at Goats, The (2009) review at Channel 4 Film

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PopMatters (Bill Gibron)

At this point in the post-modern, cynical dicta, nothing really surprises us about the military....read the complete Men Who Stare at Goats, The (2009) review at PopMatters (Bill Gibron)

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New York Observer

Intended as a farcical antidote to big-screen bores about Afghanistan and Iraq, it's twice as pompous and endlessly tedious....read the complete Men Who Stare at Goats, The (2009) review at New York Observer

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Entertainment Weekly

Spinning out the tall tale of a battalion of New Age paranormal soldiers who were trained, during Vietnam, to don cloaks of invisibility, kill goats with their minds, and generally turn war into a groovy thing, Heslov slaps gags together and never beg...read the complete Men Who Stare at Goats, The (2009) review at Entertainment Weekly