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

It's a film that only begins to take baby steps in telling what went wrong and how insane it is to stick with such a bad war policy.

...a movie that will make you angry or sad. It provides no escape or transport from, but rather deeper engagement with, the regrettably real world.

Ferguson consults not the administration's political opponents, but the very experts that the U.S. government selected and sent into the Baghdad fray ...

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.

The movie's larger points are sobering and relevant, no matter how many times they've already been made.

You’ll leave the picture shaken and stirred, knowing that if the right people were in charge, this whole Iraq thing could have worked. To call this film a “must-see” is an understatement.

Absorbing documentary that dissects the mind-numbing incompetence that has defined this White House.

The most riveting film of the summer, and also the saddest.

Charles Ferguson holds this fact to be self-evident: that the chaos in Iraq is the direct result of a handful of bad policy decisions made very early in the war.