Charles Ferguson's gripping No End in Sight relies on former Bush administration officials to make the case that in its earliest stages the American military operation in Iraq was catastrophically mismanaged.

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Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 17, 2011

A thorough, level-headed examination of the Bush administration's failure to properly prepare for, and execute, the war.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 10, 2008

Lucidly, dramatically and without resorting to partisan rhetoric, Charles Ferguson's not-to-be-missed documentary "No End in Sight" lays out in convincing, appalling detail the disastrous missteps of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Full Review | Apr 7, 2008

A tidy summary of the tragic mistakes made, and the brutal arrogance displayed, by the Bush administration in its prosecution of the Iraq war.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 5, 2007

This is a movie about the very officials who boasted 'I don't do quagmires' (then-defense secretary Rumsfeld), but who hadn't actually done the planning or simple reading of other people's plans that might have avoided that very fate.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2007

Narrated with a detached, grim authority by Campbell Scott, Ferguson's film is surely the most nonhistrionic cinematic explanation of our current geopolitical woes yet seen.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2007

No End in Sight makes one thing clear: Were it not so bloody, the war in Iraq would be destined to become a case study in the nation's business schools.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2007

Ferguson's case is so confidently built that it seems unassailable...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2007

Its list of interviewees includes a number of insiders once deeply involved in the bungled aftermath of America's invasion of Iraq. It also includes some shocking, on-the-ground footage from the war that has not been seen elsewhere.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 10, 2007

No End in Sight is the most coolheaded of the Iraq war documentaries, the most methodical and the least polemical. Yet it's the one that will leave audiences the most shattered, angry and astounded.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 10, 2007

No End in Sight will leave you floored, agape and enraged anew.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Aug 10, 2007

Ferguson is admirably tenacious in assigning blame for the boneheaded mistakes that have doomed Iraqi reconstruction.

Full Review | Aug 10, 2007

A raft of documentaries have come along since the start of the war, some of them accusatory, some investigative, some empathetic, nearly all of them skeptical. None is better argued or more searing than No End in Sight.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 10, 2007

Remember the scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex has his eyes clamped open and is forced to watch a movie? I imagine a similar experience for the architects of our catastrophe in Iraq. I would like them to see No End in Sight.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 10, 2007

Lucid, concise and devastating.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 9, 2007

[No End in Sight] may be the best and saddest film of the year so far.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 9, 2007

No End in Sight, the latest Iraq documentary, is the first to attempt a detailed historical overview and probably the only one with the potential to reach across partisan lines, a true rarity in the sphere of political filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2007

Although this is Ferguson's first feature -- he paid for it himself -- it's a masterfully assured piece of filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Aug 2, 2007