Release dates
July 7, 2017
2624 days agoCinema
Released
TBA
City of Ghosts release date
The movie City of Ghosts is already released on Cinema in the USA. The upcoming VOD, DVD and Blu-ray release date in the USA is to be announced.
What the critics say
Based on 15 reviews, City of Ghosts gets an average review score of 85
City of Ghosts provides a grim reminder of what journalism should look like, and why its stakes are literally life and death.
2616d ago
Cartel Land director Matthew Heineman’s film on citizen journalist group Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently reveals the reality of life in Isis territory.
2616d ago
Heineman’s film urges us not to take any horrors for granted. It is invaluable, as both moral instruction and documented history.
2616d ago
Ultimately, “City of Ghosts” quietly asserts itself and the work of RBSS as crucial weapons in the fight against ISIS. If ISIS is fighting a war of propaganda, banning satellite dishes and internet access and cameras, those are the tools that the citizens can and must use to resist these forces, to expose their truth. It’s a message that reaches far beyond the limits of Raqqa.
2616d ago
City of Ghosts is an urgent and timely Syria documentary.
2616d ago
Heineman so expertly captures and then capsules countless memorable moments, from a short minute of respite one member enjoys with his wife during a leisurely walk through a German city to another young man — the spokesman for RBSS — sucking hard on a cigarette as though he’s trying to catch his breath. There is life and death in every single frame of City of Ghosts, not to be easily forgotten.
2616d ago
'Cartel Land' filmmaker Matthew Heineman's terribly sad story is one of three Syria-related documentaries at the festival this year.
2616d ago
The citizen journalists in City Of Ghosts risk everything for truth.
2616d ago
A documentary looks at the improvised news organization Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, created to expose the horrors of life under Islamic State in the Syrian city.
2616d ago
In profiling the members of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, 'Cartel Land' director turns his cameras on the Syrian struggle.
2616d ago
Matthew Heineman (“Cartel Land”) spent a year in safehouses with brave Syrian refugees who post reports from inside their ISIS-captured hometown.
2616d ago
The men and women profiled in Matthew Heineman’s “City of Ghosts” are certainly haunted.
2616d ago
The ISIS-occupied Syrian city of Raqqa may be in the news this week, but for years one of the only sources of information about it came from a group of heroic citizen journalists. They call themselves Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (or RBSS).
2616d ago
The director's intimate relationships with the RBSS's heroic journalists help to sustain the film's undeniable urgency.
2616d ago
More information and in-depth analysis, as well as greater restraint in the use of atrocity images, might have deepened a movie that leans on shortcuts and visual shocks.
2616d ago