Camp X-Ray
Connection takes courage
Connection takes courage
Drama
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2014
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A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
117 min
Release date:
17 Oct 2014
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$1,000,000
Revenue:
$59,744
Awards:
6 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Camp X-Ray raises quite a few fascinating questions about power, sexism, and war, yet fails to explore them in any real depth. More troubling still, it's a character study that does little in the way of character development.
– Tirdad Derakhshani,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
7 Nov 2014
fresh:
It's invigorated, somewhat, by strong central performances from actors on opposite sides of a locked steel door.
– Bruce Ingram,
Chicago Sun-Times,
6 Nov 2014
fresh:
Writer-director Peter Sattler... grounds his story in the cold operational detail of Gitmo, showing how the soldiers there administer the legal limbo of indefinite detention and insulate themselves from the cruelty and injustice of what they're doing.
– J. R. Jones,
Chicago Reader,
6 Nov 2014
rotten:
On another movie, the high-corn finale might have worked; here, it just feels patently false.
– Randy Cordova,
Arizona Republic,
30 Oct 2014
rotten:
Has a great idea behind it - a young female soldier assigned guard duty at Guantanamo Bay forms a kinship with one of the incarcerated Muslims - but first-time writer-director Peter Sattler doesn't go anywhere interesting with that notion.
– Alonso Duralde,
TheWrap,
24 Oct 2014