"Syriana" *** (out of four): Director Stephen Gaghan's flawed but important ensemble film wears its complexity on its sleeve but still manages to get its point across.

Writer Stephen Gaghan ("Traffic", "The Alamo") created the fictional script for "Syriana" based on the non-fiction book "See No Evil" by Robert Baer. The interesting thing about Mr. Gaghan's script, though, isn't that its labyrinthine plot of conspiring Emirs, lawyers and CIA agents plotting to control the world's oil supply is so unbelievable. The most troublesome part of "Syriana" is that the movie is, in fact, so easy to believe.

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