‘Escape From Kabul’ Review: In Jamie Roberts’ Tightly Focused Doc, America’s Afghan War Ends As A Bloody Catastrophe
theplaylist.netJamie Roberts’ terse, painfully precise documentary “Escape from Kabul” zooms right in on one episode—the massive last-minute airlift of Afghans and remaining American personnel from Kabul in August 2021—and never looks away, even when you might wish that it did.
It’s a close-quarters kind of war film that moves in tight and leaves little room to breathe. This seems an appropriate stylistic decision for a movie that is mainly about tens of thousands of people trying to escape a country as it is being reclaimed by medieval fanatics whose promises of equitable treatment were not widely believed.
Continue reading ‘Escape From Kabul’ Review: In Jamie Roberts’ Tightly Focused Doc, America’s Afghan War Ends As A Bloody Catastrophe at The Playlist..
Read more on theplaylist.net
