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Septem8er Tapes
Directed by
Christian Johnston
R
2004
1h 35m
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6.3
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One year after 9/11, an American journalist travels to Afghanistan in an effort to learn the truth about the search for Osama bin Laden.
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Cast of Septem8er Tapes
George Calil
Don 'Lars' Larson
Wali Razaqi
Wali Zarif
Sunil Sadarangani
Sunil 'Sonny'
Baba Jon
Rahman
General Dil Agha
Northern Alliance Commander
Christian Johnston
Director
Jeffro Brunk
Editor
Peter Finestone
Editor
Darren Mann
Editor
Septem8er Tapes Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Eventually collapses under the weight of its no-budget arrogance, but it goes some interesting places beforehand.
eFilmCritic.com
David Cornelius
It's jingoist machismo disguised as deep insight.
Film Journal International
Eric Monder
Finally, there are no truths, higher or lower, in September Tapes...just a lot of din.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Johnston's rough-hewn handheld footage generates a sense of dread as a defining force behind the camera, more concrete than any onscreen images.
E! Online
E! Staff
It's riddled with stilted voice-overs and eye-rollingly awful dialogue.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
It's hard to make a case for an American film that intentionally mixes fact with fiction when the facts concerning 9/11, the Taliban and the fate of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden are already so elusive.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
Afghanistan shouldn't be used as a backdrop for some director's selfish attempt at provocation.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The whole notion of exploiting a war and its victims to shoot a commercial feature is reprehensible.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
Squanders incredible verisimilitude by undercutting it with credibility-defying storytelling.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Credit September Tapes with raising thorny questions about what forms of cinematic storytelling do justice to truth.
Reel.com
Timothy Knight
This disturbing docudrama is a remarkable achievement on many levels.
Boston Herald
Paul Sherman
It shares a lot with the Hollywood product: a forced gimmick, a dislikable protagonist, a transparent plot twist and a lot of unconvincing drama.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
War porn, an amateurish and incomprehensible mishmash of alleged fact and fiction.
IGN Movies
Brian Zoromski
An underwhelming execution of an interesting concept.
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Joshua Tanzer
It yanks us eyes-first into a place that we, in our living rooms, have known only as a clich.
New York Times
Anita Gates
Maybe Mr. Johnston ... intended this to be a guessing game. But the method robs the real encounters of their power and, even more important, trivializes the subject.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
Herky-jerky ripsnorter.
Variety
Lisa Nesselson
Pic's ace in the hole is its extremely authentic feel when it comes to the landscape of Afghanistan and the people and perils one might encounter there.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Little more than war porn.
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