The LA Daily News rates movies on a scale of zero to four stars. Here is their capsule review of Brian De Palma’s “Redacted.”

Redacted ****

Pseudo-documentary from Brian De Palma about American troops suffering and behaving monstrously in Iraq is hard to watch and not particularly good, either. But it dares to go to dangerous, dispiriting places that this year’s other war movies are far too timid to tread.

So, make a bad movie but as long as it presents American soldiers raping a 14-year and murdering her family as emblematic of our efforts in Iraq (dispiriting, indeed) you get four stars.