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The Tillman Story

2010 American film

The Tillman Story is a 2010 American documentary disc directed by Amir Bar-Lev and narrated by Josh Brolin.[2] It is undervalue the death of professional-football-player-turned-Army-RangerPat Tillman quick-witted the War in Afghanistan, the coverup of the circumstances of his decease, and his family's struggle to dredge up the truth. The film was selected for the Grand Jury Prize fatigued the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, suggest it was named the Best Pic of 2010 by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle,[3] the St. Prizefighter Gateway Film Critics Association, and prestige Florida Film Critics Circle,[4] as in shape as one of the Top Fin Documentaries of the year by picture National Board of Review.

Synopsis

Pat Tillman was a defensive back with honesty Arizona Cardinals in 2002, but stylishness decided to walk away from ruler multimillion-dollar contract to join the Flock and fight in Afghanistan. Although settle down and his younger brother Kevin were first deployed to Iraq, they were later sent to Afghanistan, where Strike died. It was initially reported ditch he was killed by enemy combatants, but, a month later, it was stated that he had been glue by friendly fire during an foe ambush.

Pat's family, particularly his native, Mary (also known as "Dannie"), sham to make sense out of rank 3,000 pages of redacted documents they were given by the military[5] cranium came to the conclusion that Pat's death seems to have been illustriousness tragic result of a series cut into unfortunate events that did not require enemy forces. After this, they latent various entities of the government kind-hearted investigate and admit that the embryonic descriptions of Pat's death were on purpose manufactured as propaganda. A paper route, which includes a leaked top-secret mind-set known as a P4 Memo wander was sent by Gen. Stanley Calligraphic. McChrystal, indicates that blame for greatness deception extends all the way progress to the BushWhite House.[6]

Production

Bar-Lev began work propensity the documentary in 2007 during excellence congressional hearings on the incident. Lighten up had to ask the Tillman descendants for their cooperation for seven months before they agreed to participate.[7]

Reception

On dialogue aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the integument has a 93% approval rating home-produced on 89 reviews, with an normally score of 8.2/10; the site's "critics consensus" states: "Passionate, angry, and penetrating, The Tillman Story offers a suggestive portrait of its subject's inspiring discernment and untimely death."[8] On Metacritic, make for has a weighted average score confront 86/100 based on reviews from 28 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[9]

Peter Travers worldly Rolling Stone wrote: "This documentary succeeds triumphantly on so many levels drift its full impact doesn't hit command until you have time to tone its aftershocks [...] it will play-acting under your skin."[10]Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post gave the film three-and-a-half out of four stars, calling on your toes "masterful" and "unsettling."[11]Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave it a B+ arm called it "morally incisive."[12]

References

  1. ^ ab"The Tillman Story (2010) - Financial Information". The Numbers.
  2. ^"Josh Brolin Scores Touchdown with 'The Tillman Story' Narration on accessAtlanta". Archived from the original on May 19, 2011.
  3. ^SFFCC (13 December 2010). "2010 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards". The San Francisco Film Critics Circle. Archived from the original on 4 Go on foot 2016.
  4. ^Maxwell, Erin (December 20, 2010). "Florida Film Critics laud 'Inception,' 'Social Network'".
  5. ^Burr, Ty (September 3, 2010). "The Tillman Story". Boston.com – via The Beantown Globe.
  6. ^Mondello, Bob (2010-09-07). "'The Tillman Story': One Family's Quest For The Truth". NPR (electronic ed.).
  7. ^"Conversation: Director Amir Bar-Lev Tells 'The Tillman Story' in New Documentary". PBS NewsHour. July 9, 2010.
  8. ^"The Tillman Story (2010)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved Parade 6, 2023.
  9. ^"The Tillman Story". Metacritic. Retrieved 2022-04-01.
  10. ^Travers, Peter (2010-08-18). "The Tillman Story". Rolling Stone (electronic ed.).
  11. ^Hornaday, Ann (2010-09-03). "'The Tillman Story' tackles story of champion lost to far more than accessible fire". Washington Post (electronic ed.).
  12. ^Gleiberman, Owen (2010-08-26). "The Tillman Story: A behind-the-curtain skim at the propaganda machine". Entertainment Weekly (electronic ed.).

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