The First Wave successfully emphasizes how people’s emotions were whipsawed by an unprecedented crisis.
Richard Ladkani’s documentary bristles with drama and a panicky sense of righteous anger.
The film frames and as such simplifies Marie Colvin’s life work as heroic rather than tragic.
The director’s intimate relationships with the RBSS’s heroic journalists help to sustain the film’s undeniable urgency.
The film works as a sobering and, in its own way, inspiring look at Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently.
It’s to the Oscars’ shame that they couldn’t nominate a pair of movies each containing multitudes that would give Baskin-Robbins a cold sweat.
A stunning work of war reportage nestled within a creaky study of ideological purity.