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TIME MAGAZINE
Richard Corliss
"Superb documentary ... almost unbearably moving."
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NY TIMES
NewYorkTimes.com
Nathan Southern
"A heart-wrenching and yet deeply affirming story - both a testament to one man's enduring inner strength and a towering condemnation of a localized conflict ..."
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THE DAILY PAGE
Kent Williams
"If an impetuous kid who got caught in the line of fire can put his life back together, maybe the country can too."
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USA Today
Bruce Kluger
Films no longer wait for history Pointed social commentary can be found as easily on the big screen as in newspapers or online. And, as with the Iraq war, there’s no need to wait until the dust settles.
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TORONTO STAR
Martin Knelman
"Unforgettably intimate, Un-missable. Young is a fascinating, charismatic character, the camera loves him - as will audiences."
NEW YORK OBSERVER
Rex Reed
"a wrenching documentary"
FOX NEWS
Roger Friedman
"Riveting"
JAM! SHOWBIZ!
Mike Daniell
"A searing indictment against the rush into war Š and a touching portrait of a man 'reborn' as an anti-war activist"
EAST HAMPTON STAR
"Poignant and painful, heartbreaking and inspiring, it is destined to rouse people from their complacency and spur more than a few to follow in Tomas Young's activist footsteps, a MUST SEE."
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
G. Kirschling,
"a vivid powerful window into a wounded vet's world"
REELER TV
S.T. Airsdale
"Stirring, explosive anti-war fury ... unapologetically honest and ultimately devastating"
ANADIAN PRESS
"Utterly engrossing and heartbreaking"
MOVING PICTURES MAGAZINE
Elliot Kotek
"Body of War secures its strength by offering one, very personal tale."
AUSTIN CHRONICLE
Marjorie Baumgarten
"Eloquent and emotionally moving Š a biting essay on the American Congress' rush to war and the effect of battle on one soldier"
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
John DeFore
"identification with a single protagonist gives "Body" something to set it apart from other antiwar documentaries."
FEST21.COM
"At the sold-out [Toronto Film Festival] screening the audience gave [Tomas] Young three standing ovations, amidst rapturous applause."
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Kirk Honeycutt
"multiple standing ovations for BODY of WAR"
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Peter Rainer
"the longest standing ovation I have ever heard in Toronto"
TIME MAGAZINE
"[One of] Toronto's HOT TICKETS ... [one of] 10 MUST-SEES."
TORONTO STAR
This unforgettably intimate documentary personalizes the Iraq war by showing how it affected a Missouri soldier. Tomas Young, who came home with a severed spine, is paralyzed from the chest down, but the camera loves him -- as will audiences. Un-missable.
MSN.com
After his MSNBC nightly talk show was canceled in 2003, Phil Donahue seemed drop out of sight (one memorable 2005 Bill O'Reilly interview aside). But the social advocate who was a legendary champion for intelligent daytime talk has been busy -- on the big screen. Alongside filmmaker Ellen Spiro, Donahue has directed and fully financed a new documentary entitled "Body of War."
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Variety
By Steven Zeitchik
One of the most buzzed-about docs in Gotham film and television circles comes from an unlikely source: Phil Donahue.
The talkshow icon has been entertaining a stream of acquisitions execs from specialty labels and broadcast and cable nets who have come one by one to his Upper East Side penthouse for private screenings.
The film he has eager to show them -- very eager, said several execs who have made the trip -- is "Body of War," an unashamedly partisan film arguing the folly of the Iraq campaign.
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The Nation
By Eugene Richards
Their house, a suburban ranch with a wheelchair ramp running up to the front door, was, as far as I could see, the only one on the street flying an American flag. It had to be Brie, not her rebellious and haunted husband of seven months, who was responsible for this. It had been Brie who put Tomas's Purple Heart on display in a corner of their living room.
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FOXNEWS
Add the name of Phil Donahue to the list of people who’ve made documentaries about the effects of the Iraq war.
The legendary liberal talk-show host and renowned Ralph Nader supporter showed his film — which he called a work in progress — to a private screening group last week.
The film, “Body of War,” is unfinished but riveting. It should make Tomas Young, its central character, a star on the lecture and possibly talk-show circuit, much the way Mark Zupan got recognition after last year’s “Murderball.”
Young, who was 24 years old, went to Baghdad in April 2004 as a very green solider. He’d enlisted right after Sept. 11, thinking he’d be sent to Afghanistan to hunt down the terrorists who caused the tragedies at the World Trade Center.
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