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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 67The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakRoessner hasn’t written an anti-war or pro-war film. Sand Castle merely shows the honesty of war’s infinite complexities.
- 50The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyIt’s a stale, phony, grunt-level sort of view of American intervention, cast in large part with Brits and shot in the familiar desert backlots of Jordan, which has stood in for the site of one Middle Eastern conflict after another since "Lawrence Of Arabia."
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreA combat movie that’s as generic as they come.
- 50We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoWe Got This CoveredMatt DonatoSand Castle is an Iraq war story about certain futility, but there's a certain redundancy to political overtones that preach what we've been hearing all along.
- 38Slant MagazineSlant MagazineUnwittingly perhaps, the film reveals itself as a microcosm of America's foreign policy in the Middle East.
- 38RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoRogerEbert.comBrian TallericoFernando Coimbra’s Sand Castle offers too little to the War is Hell genre to be noteworthy.