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Syriana

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The film is a politically-charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved and affected by it, showing the human consequences of the fierce pursuit of wealth and power.
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Eye for Film
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August 06, 2007

Preferring probing questions to pat solutions, the film drills deep in its exploration of the US's ventures, both economic and military, in the Middle East.
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Film4
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March 30, 2009

A film that treats its audience as adults, this is an extremely rewarding work that handsomely pays off the concentration required to watch it.
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Salon.com
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October 07, 2006

It's entirely possible that Gaghan just isn't an actor's director.
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Big Picture Big Sound
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July 14, 2007

The most troublesome part of Syriana is that the movie is, in fact, so easy to believe.
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The New Republic

January 03, 2006

Syriana impresses, not because it is very moving, which it isn't, or because it is crystal clear, which it also isn't, but because it is so large, so encompassing, so seemingly privy to inside stuff.
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CinePassion
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September 01, 2009

A skeleton of theme minus the meat of resonance
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Chicago Reader
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March 30, 2009

This is intelligent, committed, and politically provocative, though its narrative puzzle box may prompt you to throw up your hands and let ExxonMobil go on running the world.
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BrandonFibbs.com
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February 28, 2008

You didn't understand all of it? It went by too fast to take it all in? There was too much information to mentally digest? Yeah, well, that was kind of the point.
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Seattle Times
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December 09, 2005

Watch closely and listen carefully during Syriana because Stephen Gaghan's movie is that rarity: a thinking person's drama.
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eFilmCritic.com
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September 23, 2007

Probes a significant subject but treats its people as mere stick figures carrying exposition from place to place.
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Newsweek
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November 01, 2007

Its dark, dog-eat-dog vision of the world we live in may give you geopolitical nightmares.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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December 09, 2005

It's hard to get passionately swept away by a movie when you're struggling continually to figure out who's doing what to whom and why.
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