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Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
A gripping movie about espionage, loyalty and betrayal. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Portland Oregonian (Shawn Levy)
San Francisco Chronicle (Ruthe Stein)
Empire Movies (Liam Cullin)
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Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Like the saying about the butterfly flapping its wings on one side of the world and affecting currents on the other, Syriana shows how the multitentacled quest to control oil supplies in one part of the world can affect (both intentionally and ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
I don't want to scare you off by saying this is a not a film for everyone. I also don't want you to skip this film because you have to do a bit of work just sitting in the audience. By work I mean you have to think and attempt to follow a very ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Lobo Howls (Judith Wolfe)
NYC Film Critic (Ethan Alter)
For all of the movie's flaws, I still have an enormous respect for Syriana and all of the work that into it. The cast is great (particularly Clooney, who manages to rid himself of all his usual acting tics) and I admire Gaghan?s willingness to tackle ...read the complete Syriana movie review at NYC Film Critic (Ethan Alter)
The King's Room (Clyde Ayles)
In "Syriana" GEORGE CLOONEY turns in a right on the money performance as a
C.I.A. operative investigating terrorism in the middle east in this tense
political thriller. As he does, he becomes aware of corruption all around him ...read the complete Syriana movie review at The King's Room (Clyde Ayles)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Gripping in parts, convoluted and stagnant in others, Syriana is screenwriter Steven Gaghan's (Rules of Engagement, Havoc) attempt to provide an insider's peek into the varying forces at play in the continuing Middle Eastern oil and terrorism struggles, s ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Once again, in a film like Syriana, the weight of the subject matter makes up for this -- Gaghan goes after nothing less than international oil politics, tracking the tangled web of corruption, power plays, and human cost from the lowliest field workers ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Off-screen
Lontani dai bucolici carmi di valli invase dagli ovini al pascolo, lontani da quell’immagine politically correct che l’'America ama dare di sé, i cow-boys si rivelano per quello che sono in realtà : predatori di risorse e faccendieri in doppio petto ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Off-screen
Steve Rhodes <Steve.Rhodes@internetreviews.com>
Syrianais a movie filled with contradictions. It's a movie that feels like it's one of those "good for you movies," yet it's also at times highly entertaining. It's filled with grandstanding actors, but also with some wonderfully nuanced performances. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Steve Rhodes <Steve.Rhodes@internetreviews.com>
MovieMaze (Toni Strasser)
Newsweek (David Ansen)
This is a movie that sticks its political neck out, that throbs with dread, paranoia and outrage, that doesn't coddle the audience by neatly tying things up. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Newsweek (David Ansen)
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The Onion (A.V. Club) (Keith Phipps)
Gaghan brings in many more players, but edits the film into the lean, propulsive shape of a thriller. That ends up being something of a problem; some sub-plots never fully untangle and characters get lost as Gaghan rushes toward a conclusion that, taken ...read the complete Syriana movie review at The Onion (A.V. Club) (Keith Phipps)
LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
Seldom have form, content and cultural sensibility been so excitably aligned as in this fascinating, exasperating film about the unholy marriage of power politics and global business. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at LA Weekly (Ella Taylor)
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Film Threat (Pete Vonder Haar)
A bleak and powerful movie, made all the more sobering by how much of it isn't fiction. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Film Threat (Pete Vonder Haar)
efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
While 'Syriana' takes much of its inspiration from current headlines, its greatest strength is not in how it reminds viewers of what they can see on a cable news channel but in how it can make its participants become convincingly human. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at efilmcritic.com (Dan Lybarger)
Empire (Colin Kennedy)
Demanding, even confusing at times, this is required viewing that requires your full attention. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Empire (Colin Kennedy)
Time (Richard Corliss)
Not a conventionally satisfying movie but a kind of illustrated journalism: an engrossing, insider's tour of the world's hottest spots, grandest schemes and most dangerous men. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Time (Richard Corliss)
The New York Times (A.O. Scott)
It aims to be a great deal more than a standard geopolitical thriller and thereby succeeds in being one of the best geopolitical thrillers in a very long time. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at The New York Times (A.O. Scott)
Panorama (Jean-François Vandeuren)
Stephen Gaghan signe une %u0153uvre nécessaire qui arrive au bon moment pour agrémenter un débat sans que cela ne paraisse trop opportuniste. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Panorama (Jean-François Vandeuren)
Poffy The Cucumber's Movie Mania
If "oily Arab" was once an insult referring to a Middle Easterner's complexion, nowadays it should truly be considered the highest compliment, pertaining to certain Arabs (via birthright and political wolfing), controlling the fortunes of the planet Earth ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Poffy The Cucumber's Movie Mania
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ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
[Syriana] fulfils all the key criteria of a decent political thriller - it'll make you angry, it'll make you think and it'll scare the hell out of you. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
Variety (Todd McCarthy)
A weighty and deeply intriguing look at the many-tentacled beast that is the international oil industry. Wide-ranging and restlessly probing, Stephen Gaghan's second directorial effort uses the same mosaic storytelling technique as in his Oscar-winning ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Variety (Todd McCarthy)
Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
Given the large cast, the international hopscotch, and the tantalizing illusion of depth, the movie's tone is "Frontline" meets John le Carré. Compared to the complacence of something like "The Interpreter," it's a regular brain tickler. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Village Voice (J. Hoberman)
efilmcritic.com (Uri Lessing)
Stephen Gaghan pulls it off by presenting an interesting menagerie of characters, a myriad of locations and a screenplay that overestimates rather than underestimates the audience's intelligence. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at efilmcritic.com (Uri Lessing)
Orlando Weekly (Steve Schneider)
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Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
Syriana is the most challenging and uncompromising movie to come out of Hollywood in a long time. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marjorie Baumgarten)
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Fulvue Drive-in
I just love when movies stump the audience to the point that they are either confused or angry, yet still interested in knowing what happened. That is especially the case when the film is smart and has important points to make. The disadvantage is ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Fulvue Drive-in
Nehring The Edge
Its as fun and coherent as listening to a recently fired foreign policy analyst whine down at the local bar. “Saudi Arabia still resents us over that $20 billion defense contract we nixed back in the nineties! -hiccup- they didn’t like my paper on ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Nehring The Edge
DeepFriedRice.com (Scott Meixel)
Film Monthly (Hank Yuloff)
DVD Clinic ("Sturdy")
An interweaving tale of three men caught up in the corruption of the oil industry. Each have very different roles, but each are effected dramatically. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at DVD Clinic ("Sturdy")
One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
Gaghan asks us to piece together the story from the evidence onscreen, making the film almost an exercise in participatory investigative journalism. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
Boston Globe
Stephen Gaghan's "Syriana" flies into theaters praised as a rarity: Hollywood doesn't make movies like this anymore. By "like this," those of us who appreciate Gaghan's movie mean "intelligent," "political," "incensed," "timely," and "appropriately ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Boston Globe
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Rick Groen)
Reserved yet still suspenseful and hugely ambitious, Syriana sets out to prove what many have come to suspect -- that oil money is the root of all contemporary evil. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (Rick Groen)
Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
The story is filled with back-stabbing double-dealing and other skullduggery. Everyone in the movie, it seems, is being used by someone else in some complicated, underhanded scheme. It includes some shocking scenes of violence and torture. The film ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
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Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
Wow. I am so proud to live in a country where films like this can be made. The current political climate hasn't exactly shown off America's beauty -- quite the opposite really. Syriana certainly seems to be revealing America's flaws, but at the same ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
Gaghan is attempting to cover so much ground in Syriana that the movie at times feels a little suffocating. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Miami Herald (Rene Rodriguez)
Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)
In its seriousness, Syriana has an absorbing, ominous roundness that plays even better with a second viewing. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Boston Globe (Wesley Morris)
TV Guide (Ken Fox)
We can only hope that the time frame is meant to be sometime before 9/11, and not after. Either way, it's a troubling vision of how terrorism and "martyrdom" occur on both sides of this ghostly war, and is both perpetrated and facilitated by the very ...read the complete Syriana movie review at TV Guide (Ken Fox)
Premiere (Glenn Kenny)
Syriana depicts a system so thoroughly and intractably rotten that the standard liberal how-you-can-make-a-difference solutions--being more conscientious about using electricity, getting a hybrid car, and so on--only look like so much spit in the face of ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Premiere (Glenn Kenny)
Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Politically, Syriana is a card-carrying liberal, more in tune with Le Carre and Greene than with Clancy. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Chicago Tribune (Michael Phillips)
Salt Lake City Weekly
You won’t learn what the term “Syriana†means from watching Syriana. You won’t learn it from reading this review, either. If you’re the kind of poli-sci wonk who already knows this particular concept—or the kind of person willing to Google ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Salt Lake City Weekly
Denver Post (Michael Booth)
Syriana is a fascinating movie -- and a substantive and thought-provoking one -- but it does not necessarily attain greatness. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Denver Post (Michael Booth)
Reel.com (James Plath)
Syriana really makes viewers work to try to understand the complexities involved in protecting (or resisting) U.S. interests in the Middle East. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Reel.com (James Plath)
Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
An intelligent dissection of the business, politics, emotions and conspiracies of the global oil industry that edifies as much as it entertains. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Newark Star-Ledger (Stephen Whitty)
The stars are all good here ... (and they're aided by supporting work from dependable performers such as Chris Cooper, William Hurt and Christopher Plummer) and Clooney -- and his story -- really shines. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Newark Star-Ledger (Stephen Whitty)
Palo Alto Weekly (Susan Tavernetti)
Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
Watch closely and listen carefully during Syriana because Stephen Gaghan's movie is that rarity: a thinking person's drama. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
Nick's Flick Picks (Nick Davis)
The film spooks you: you have to give it that, and it makes a powerful case, if only by default, that we've already lost our mutual endgame with capital and treachery. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Nick's Flick Picks (Nick Davis)
The Independent (Anthony Quinn)
Cage, on the other hand, carries his burden of disappointment and self-loathing quite wonderfully, and the script holds firm by not plumping a cushion of redemption to catch him at the end. There is something terribly sad, and terribly funny, in the ...read the complete Syriana movie review at The Independent (Anthony Quinn)
Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Maybe they should give editor Tim Squyres something - if not an Oscar, then antacid tablets. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
I'm giving the film a "recommended" grade because it's well-shot and convincingly acted, and because I think there are things lurking in it that would emerge with a second viewing. Those who have lavished great praise on the film either were among my ...read the complete Syriana movie review at The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
Zap2it.com (Dan Fienberg)
Syriana is that rarest of animals -- the star-laden studio release that's all steak, no sizzle. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Zap2it.com (Dan Fienberg)
Palo Alto Online (Susan Tavernetti)
Alexander Siddig and Matt Damon in SyrianaSyriana writer-director Stephen Gaghan ignored Samuel Goldwyn's oft-quoted adage, If you want to send a message, call Western Union. His scorching take on the oil-fueled politics of the Persian Gulf joins the ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Palo Alto Online (Susan Tavernetti)
Entertainment Weekly
Syriana has a lot of big, important things to say about big, important things, and it says them with a sense of urgency. This dense, talky, proudly complicated adult drama of geopolitical intrigue weighs in on the amoral realities of covert CIA ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Entertainment Weekly
Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)
It's intelligent agitprop, a stimulating fireball that deserves to be the center of water-cooler conversation. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)
Christianity Today (Russ Breimeier)
Interesting and worth watching, despite the fact that complete comprehension of the film seems just beyond the reach of the viewer. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Christianity Today (Russ Breimeier)
filmcritic.com (Chris Barsanti)
Never send a writer to do a director’s job. That, more than the addictive evils of easy oil and cozy government/business corruption, is the true lesson of Syriana. When Steven Soderbergh took on Stephen Gaghan’s byzantine script for Traffic, ...read the complete Syriana movie review at filmcritic.com (Chris Barsanti)
Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Writer Stephen Gaghan ( "Traffic", "The Alamo") created the fictional script for "Syriana" based on the non-fiction book "See No Evil" by Robert Baer. The interesting thing about Mr. Gaghan's script, though, isn't that its labyrinthine plot of ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Charlotte Weekly (Sean O'Connell)
Rips its motivations from the front pages of our daily newspapers, blurring the line between reality and fiction with credible subplots and believable twists. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Charlotte Weekly (Sean O'Connell)
Movies for Guys
The point of Syriana isn't the story, it's the ideas behind the story. Our dependency on oil is obvious, and we get a large percentage of our oil from regions that we may find politically distasteful. The question is do we care or not. As long ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Movies for Guys
TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
Very loosely based on former CIA operative Robert Baer's incendiary 2002 memoir See No Evil, TRAFFIC screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's second turn as a feature director envisions an all-too-real world in which oil-company profits trump the war against ...read the complete Syriana movie review at TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
It's a troubling vision of how terrorism and 'martyrdom' occur on both sides of this ghostly war, and is both perpetrated and facilitated by the very forces enlisted to stop it. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Ken Fox)
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Gripping in parts, convoluted and stagnant in others, Syriana is screenwriter Steven Gaghan's (Rules of Engagement, Havoc) attempt to provide an insider's peek into the varying forces at play in the continuing Middle Eastern oil and terrorism struggles, s ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
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Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)
This is intelligent, committed, and politically provocative, though its narrative puzzle box may prompt you to throw up your hands and let Exxon go on running the world. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Chicago Reader (J.R. Jones)
Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
It's intimidatingly intelligent, definitely not a time-waster, and challenges the viewer to keep up. But mashing in so many stories also serves to weaken the film as a whole. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Dallas Observer (Robert Wilonsky)
Gaghan's a filmmaker for the gamer who doesn't need to have the plot follow a neat, linear path. Besides, you don't need to know precisely what's going on; no one else in the film does either. Which is Gaghan's point. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Dallas Observer (Robert Wilonsky)
Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)
Clooney is the soul of Syriana, and his face is what you're left with long after the movie's obsessive plot details have sifted away. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Salon.com (Stephanie Zacharek)
The New Yorker (David Denby)
A major film without being a great film. It's a strange movie, and a stunningly pessimistic one, and the strangeness and pessimism connect it to other recent American films in ways that suggest that something unhappy in the national mood has crept into ...read the complete Syriana movie review at The New Yorker (David Denby)
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The oil industry and terrorism and American imperialism make for a seriously heavy bummer. Happy holidays, everybody!
What's the Deal? This multiple-plot mosaic is about corruption in the oil industry, right-wing think-tanks that want to squeeze the ...read the complete Syriana movie review at movies.com (Dave White)
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In den deutschen Kinos läuft zeitgleich der türkische Anti-US-Thriller "Tal der Wölfe - Irak", neue Folterbilder aus dem irakischen US-Gefängnis Abu Ghreib wurden gerade publiziert - und dann: "Syriana". US-Star George Clooney wurde sowohl für die ...read the complete Syriana movie review at filmrezension.de (Michael Dlugosch)
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"Syriana" is not a film you can watch casually while sorting through mail or doing the NY Times crossword. If you blink, or attempt to have a conversation, you might miss an important piece of dialog that ties two of the complex sub-plots together. No, ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Big Picture Big Sound - HD-DVD review (Chris Boylan)
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It’s perfectly true that the movies occupy their own little world, one in which the only allowable villainy comes from Nazis, racists and other "prejudiced" people, the sexually repressed, sinister forces within the U.S. government and big corporations ...read the complete Syriana movie review at James Bowman
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Syriana falls down at the most basic storytelling level, and this incoherence damages even the good parts. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)
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"One of the year's more compelling and better films." ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
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The movie adds up to one of the smartest and most ambitious political thrillers in years. But if you find a more difficult movie to follow this year, it will be in Mandarin without subtitles. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
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Watching Syriana, one feels as if he's receiving cryptic transmissions from some corner of the world where life-altering, earth-rattling decisions are made every minute. The story it tells is so dense with portent and allusiveness that it often seems ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Newsday
The Movie Chicks
This movie is basically a collection of hard-hitting stories with unscrupulous characters - aimed to show all the unsavory wheeling and dealing in the oil business. It highlights corruption, deception, and government involvement in all manner of ...read the complete Syriana movie review at The Movie Chicks
Reel.com
Ambitious to a fault, Stephen Gaghan's geopolitical thriller Syriana is an alternately engrossing and confusing film stretched over far too broad a narrative canvas. It's a movie of many virtues that fairly crackles with intelligence, but this ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Reel.com
Fresno Bee (Donald Munro)
It's serious and scathing, and it seems to think that because it displays those characteristics that it should get some sort of pass when it comes to cogent story telling. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Fresno Bee (Donald Munro)
Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Too many characters. This story, like Lord of the Rings, is better told as a 6-hour package divided into three films. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
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I haven’t used this phrase too often in my reviews this year, so allow me to brush some cobwebs from it and integrate it into this film’s review, as it is likely the most deserving of the honor of “most overrated movie of the year”. That’s right, ...read the complete Syriana movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Parent Previews
Artistically, Syriana doesn't provide the same sense of cheating space and time that Traffic accomplished. Instead of a "wow" finish, you leave feeling like you've missed something in the convoluted outcome. Given the chance to ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Parent Previews
Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Stephen Gaghan's Syriana is an awards-season message in search of a movie. A discouraging damnation of big business oil and its influence on the CIA and on the politics of Arab nations, it's a message that's easy to agree with. But with his ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)
"Syriana," whose 10 producers include star George Clooney, mentions in passing The President. No specific politician nor political party is identified, but the time frame is more recent than 9/11.
The movie is a damning indictment of U.S. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Ed Blank)
Tony Medley
An hour into this thing I had
to take a latrine break. When I returned, after only a couple of minutes,
there was a line of dialogue that referred to something that had
apparently just taken place, so I asked the lady next to me ...read the complete Syriana movie review at Tony Medley
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The Saudi prince is Prince Nasir (Alexander Siddig) and he is
hopeful he will be the next emir (king to the rest of you). He is
also ambitious and smart and has a collective interest in
maintaining a business relationship with America and China. ...read the complete Syriana movie review at rec.arts.movies.reviews (Jerry Saravia)
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