Fresh
Like the Iraq war documentary No End in Sight, this movie about the U.S. military's systematic torture of terror suspects is a triumph not of reporting but of synthesis.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Taxi to the Dark Side
In 2002, a young cab driver picked up a few passengers near his home in Afghanistan... He never returned
2008 · 1h 46m · R
Documentary
Directed by
Alex Gibney
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Taxi to the Dark Side
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An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
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Certain to inspire both outrage and sorrow, Alex Gibney's harrowing documentary -- about the torture and abuse of suspected terrorists in U.S. military prisons -- ranks among recent cinema's more excoriating moral indictments.
Bob Mondello, NPR.org
Fresh
Taxi to the Dark Side is a stunning indictment of torture as policy, a brilliant documentary whose arguments are so well-supported and reasonably made that you can't ignore them.
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
Fresh
Along with No End in Sight, this movie is one of the essential documentaries of the ongoing war.
David Denby, New Yorker
Fresh
Taxi to the Dark Side joins a growing list of outspoken documentaries that question the rationale and conduct of America's presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, and our willingness to destroy freedom in order to save it.
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
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