‘American Doctor’ Review: An Unflinching Chronicle of Three Courageous U.S. Physicians Who Volunteered in Gaza (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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January 23, 2026

It’s hard to make a documentary about the war in Gaza that does not feel overtly political. And yet director Poh Si Teng’s unflinching new exposé, American Doctor, is first and foremost a humanitarian story — one in which medicine and moral decency take precedence over partisanship.

Which isn’t to say that this very hands-on look at three American physicians volunteering in Gaza isn’t also a political statement. By its very existence — and in what it reveals about the IDF’s killing, maiming and wounding of Palestinian civilians over the past few years — the film is a condemnation both of Netanyahu’s far-right war machine and the U.S. government’s steadfast support of it.

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