Film Comment
"Films such as NO END IN SIGHT, STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, and GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB serve as a necessary counterbalance to the manufactured reportage of the mainstream media..." 03/01/2008 p.70USA Today
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[H]aunting and troubling....STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE's subject matter, and what it says about the war in Iraq, is eye-opening. It may be the most disturbing film you'll see in a long time." 04/25/2008 New York Times
"A blockbuster of a documentary....STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE is a big, provocative and -- it goes without saying -- disturbing work..." 04/25/2008 Los Angeles Times
"[F]ocus is really the heart of Morris' unsettling film which strikes a remarkable balance between art and disturbance, between beauty and pain." 05/02/2008 Entertainment Weekly
"Morris, using a welter of photographs, constructs a day-to-day sense of how Abu Ghraib descended into a medieval hell." -- Grade: A- 05/01/2008 p.98 Sight and Sound
"STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE resituates Abu Ghraib in the realm of the gothic....Characteristically, Morris does not finger pointing; there is rope enough here for most of the interviewees to hang themselves." 08/01/2008 78 Empire
4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here is an emotive score by Danny Elfman and imaginative visual input from Kyle Cooper." 08/01/2008 p.60 Premiere
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Morris works with a deliberately limited set of means: his interviews, data-conveying graphics, reenactments, and the photos themselves....[These methods] construct a remarkably compelling narrative..." 04/23/2008 Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] harrowing documentary from Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Morris....Terrifying..." 02/01/2009 | 
