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Nash'at may have started the filmmaking process looking for something resembling humanity in the Taliban fighters, but what he found instead was a shocking level of resolve that we, and the US military, underestimated.
Indiewire
Much of what we see is what the Taliban wants us to see, but as that's what's really important to them, it's also what we ? anyone who's a non-fundamentalist ? need to see to understand them.
Roger Ebert
It's a film that feels like an overture to an international crisis, a warning as much as a documentary.
Rolling Stone
The Taliban wanted a 90-minute commercial and Nash'at wanted 90 minutes of truth, and what they both got was a portrait of the complicated cost of access ? more vital in its universal applicability to documentary filmmaking than its immediacy as a documentary.
New York Times
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