Army of One

Should become required viewing for all troubled youth, their uncertain parents, the military establishment and their detractors or supporters.

Concise, humane documentary.

Riveting and timely.

Goodman doesn't preach or point fingers. She lets the three recruits have their say, and allows viewers to make up their own minds on the issues her film raises.

If you can handle the truth, Sarah Goodman's entropic doc is as exquisite a basic training in banal U.S. Army culture as you're likely to find.

By the end, even Goodman seems to have lost interest.

Puts a bitterly ironic spin on the Army's best-known recruiting slogan, "Be all that you can be."