The Fog of War

Pros: A baffling portrait of a baffling man made with consummate skill
Cons: Some people just won't be interesting or will misinterpret the data

From his 1978 feature documentary debut The Gates of Heaven through A Brief History of Time, Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control and the recent Dr. Death, filmmaker Errol Morris has concentrated on obsessive eccentrics. Whether, ...

Pros: Wonderful, lucid subject; utterly compelling and absorbing journey through contemporary history
Cons: If this is Reality filmmaking, where's Paris Hilton's commentary

Before Robert Strange McNamara was fortuitously tapped by JFK to serve as Secretary Of Defense in 1961, he was president of Ford Motor Company, the first person not to assume the position through nepotism. Besides making automobiles more affordable, in ...

Pros: Sweeping Lesson in 20th Century History
Cons: Nuclear Weapons + Human Fallibilty = X

When you go to a horror film, you sit down, get the wind scared out of you, and then go back to reality. But the Fog of War, the latest film from Errol Morris, is a documentary. You sit down and get the wind scared of you, but you can’t go back ...