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Taxi to the Dark Side Review

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5.0

Dave White Profile

… clearly anti-war and anti-Bush. Read full review

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  • 5.0
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  • 100

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    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    This movie does not describe the America I learned about in civics class, or think of when I pledge allegiance to the flag. Yet I know I will get the usual e-mails accusing me of partisanship, bias, only telling one side, etc. What is the other side? See this movie, and you tell me.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    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.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    As viewers of his Enron film will testify, Gibney is a scrupulous director, and Taxi to the Dark Side is filled with detailed factual information.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter

    In the end, this passionate indictment of present U.S. policies stirs both sadness and outrage.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

    Taxi to the Dark Side adds something new to our awareness -- interviews with soldiers who served as interrogators in Afghanistan, and in Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, and who, in some cases that ended in courts martial, served prison terms themselves.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The New York Times A.O. Scott

    If recent American history is ever going to be discussed with the necessary clarity and ethical rigor, this film will be essential.

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  • 91

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Where "No End" is cool and measured, Taxi is hot, anguished, and sometimes as difficult to watch as pictures of torture ought to be.

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VERY MOVING... REPEATS PREVIOUS DOCS B4 IT by RGU808
More on the attrocoties of our country holding thousands of detainees without due process. I rented a documentary on ABU GHRAIB that already covered a bulk of what was presented in this film, but it did go into great detail in pointing out that being a country that tortures prisoners does not get any trustworthy information nor does it make us any safer.

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