A snapshot of some of the reviews for Taxi to the Dark Side coming out in advance of the film’s opening this Friday in New York and Los Angeles.
AM New York — “Taxi is a must see!”
Associated Content — “The film invites a revolutionary and transformative reflection on the essence of human rights as well as the true intention of the forces behind the War on Terror.”
BlogCritics — “An eye-opening look at US detainee policy in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo, it’s a stunning film, and one that deserves to find a wide audience.”
Box Office — “We should take solace in the notion that as long as documentaries like Gibney’s are allowed to be produced and screened, we’ll never be too far away from a time when such films weren’t even necessary.”
Entertainment Week — “Hot, anguished, and sometimes as difficult to watch as pictures of torture ought to be…”
Film Journal — “Director Alex Gibney makes an indisputable case that leaders of the Bush administration have made torture an integral part of United States policy in the Middle East. It is a devastating account of detainees killed, soldiers corrupted and principles abandoned.”
Hollywood Reporter — “In the end, this passionate indictment of present U.S. policies stirs both sadness and outrage.”
New York Magazine — “It’s the equal of No End in Sight in its tight focus on the nuts and bolts of incompetence, and it surpasses any recent melodrama in the empathy it evokes for both its victims and–surprisingly–victimizers.”
Variety — “Photos and video of torture at Bagram and Abu Ghraib are the most viscerally disturbing elements of Taxi to the Dark Side, but the way soft-spoken soldiers were transformed into beasts with the tacit approval of the higher-ups is just as profoundly chilling.”
Village Voice — “Taxi is an impressively blueprinted work. Still images–from autopsy tables, makeshift holding cells, the Oval Office–are selected and deployed to maximum effect.”
