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Command and Control
2016
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4.5
While it is certainly constructed to be an entertaining, non fiction thriller, it still remains very true to the realities of the men involved.
We Got This Covered
4.5
It doesnt take a rocket scientist to see that Command And Control is prime remake material.
Screen Daily
4.4
A terrifying documentary thatll have your heart racing as fast as any Hollywood thriller, Kenners film reveals that, due to a range of errors and acci ..
Philly
3.5
Despite the high stakes, Command and Control is morbidly fun to watch, in the manner of good suspense thrillers and disaster films.
Village Voice
3.8
A cautionary tale of freak accidents, near misses, human fallibility and extraordinary heroism, Command and Control forces viewers to confront the gre ..
Blu Ray
4.0
Produced for the PBS series American Experience, this hair raising documentary revisits the 1980 accident in which the fuel tank of a U.S. nuclear mis ..
Chicago Reader
4.0
It was several time bombs ticking at once, a situation no one knew how to fix and whose potential consequences no one could predict.
The Wrap
4.0
Once the socket fell, a nightmarishly slow drop that Kenner replays with eerie effectiveness, the stomach churning build to disaster proceeds at an al ..
Film Journal
3.5
What gives Command and Control its urgency are both its wealth of information and the implications of its story.
Npr
3.8
Malick introduces us to staggeringly beautiful starscapes based on Hubble Spacecraft telescope images and gorgeous visual effects renderings of primev ..
Star Tribune
3.5
The film, made in tandem with PBSs American Experience, employs dramatic reenactments and talking heads to chronicle the wild turmoil that transpired ..
Ew
3.8
That feels about right, doesnt it.When the world comes to an end, maybe it wont be a drama.
Sf Gate
2.5
In effect, Command and Controls shift from its focus on quotidian fun to catastrophic horror becomes the documentarys reason for being; its a testamen ..
Slant Magazine
3.8
Far from being a historical cautionary tale, Command and Control looks forward, not backward. Kenners unsettling film casts its worried gaze not at th ..
Washington Post
4.0
The film effectively recreates the sense of confusion over how to try to contain the leak and what might happen if the fuel ignited.
The New York Times
3.8
Panic stricken, the airman didnt report the incident for an hour.
Boston Globe
3.5
Command and Control has a strong anti nuclear bomb vibe as it shows the confusion of those responsible for taking care of our nuclear arsenal.
Reeling Reviews
4.8
Cole poured Founders Brewing DOOM Barrel Aged Double IPA over Great Divides TITAN IPA to simulate to simulate the dangerous mixture of hypergolic with ..
Coles Mithey
4.0
No weapons advocate ever thought one of these behemoths might detonate right here at home, but the inevitable conclusion on seeing this film is that o ..
Los Angeles Times
4.0
Based on the harrowing book by Eric Schlosser (who not only co wrote, but also appears in the film), this unsettling production made in concert with P ..
Variety
4.0
For nine hours, the staff worked to stop a nuclear warhead detonation that would have flattened the whole of Arkansas and thats not the only time weve ..
Now Toronto
3.8
Archival footage is combined with somewhat affected looking re enactments, but the film achieves its purpose: to remind us that we still have thousand ..
New York Post
4.4
It was going about 700 miles an hour when it struck the earth.It buried deep in the ground.
Ar Kansas Online
3.5
The meat of Kenners story is the heroics of the Air Force technicians who risked their lives attempting to keep the Titan from exploding.It adds a per ..
Patriot Ledger
3.5
That already redundant piece of technology could have wiped out most of the continent with its payload of over 650 Hiroshimas, and very nearly did.
Straight
1.0
Director and co writer Robert Kenners account of a narrowly avoided through sheer good luck nuclear missile disaster on U.S. soil in 1980.
Sandiego Reader
4.0
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (cont.).Command and Control Director Robert Kenner (adapting Eric Schlossers book) constructs a tense, scary tick tock of a 19 ..
Flavor Wire
3.5
Thats a suitable subject for a nail biter fictional thriller, but Robert Kenners Command and Control is a documentary.
East Bay Express
4.5
If the day had gone further wrong, it could have caused a catastrophe 600 times the size of Hiroshima.
New City Film
3.8
Given the volatile nature of nukes, its not inconceivable or shocking that such a small something could morph into a near nuclear disaster with greate ..
Cambridge Day
3.0
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The Nation
4.0
Command and Control Directed by Robert Kenner Opens September 14 at Film Forum In the 1980s, psychiatrist Robert Lifton observed in Americans a kind o ..
Bk Mag
4.0
Reverse our withdrawal from the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty and honor its stipulations.
Louis Proyect
4.0
So, are you in the mood for a gripping tale that will scare the bejesus out of you
Film International
5.0
But Command and Control is not only a terrifying narrative about a disaster that did not come to passalthough one person died and many were left scarr ..
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