The baggage Stewart brings to 'Camp X-Ray' makes its first hour more compelling than anything in the screenplay.

| Jun 18, 2016

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 7, 2014

It's invigorated, somewhat, by strong central performances from actors on opposite sides of a locked steel door.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 6, 2014

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.

| Nov 6, 2014

On another movie, the high-corn finale might have worked; here, it just feels patently false.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 30, 2014

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.

| Oct 24, 2014

It helps if you think of "Camp X-Ray" and the prison face-off between Stewart and Maadi as a cautionary conversation unfolding more like a theater production than a movie.

| Oct 23, 2014

Sattler digs into both sides of those cell doors, exploring the combative side of soldiers having to "babysit" detainees while those inside the prison walls are driven mad by their lack of sleep and unfortunate conditions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2014

Even as Camp X-Ray builds to its preposterous final scene, Stewart and Moaadi remain fascinating to behold.

| Oct 21, 2014

These two onscreen together seems ludicrous at first glance. But like their characters, they create something powerful and rewarding.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2014

As Cole, Kristen Stewart is a good fit. In some of her more notable past roles, her tense, clipped delivery has read like disassociation from the material. But here, we get it.

| Oct 17, 2014

'Camp X-Ray' is well-cast: Stewart's stoic performance is quite good and Peyman Moaadi is heartbreakingly believable as a man who has lost almost all hope but tries to maintain his dignity.

| Original Score: 2.5 | Oct 17, 2014

An expensively mounted treatise on important issues that's terrified to dig in obsessively, yet so ramrod-stiff with indignation that it never comes anywhere near compelling entertainment.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 17, 2014

"Camp X-Ray" has cinematic and moral intelligence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 17, 2014

Despite the movie's gripping performances and the verisimilitude of many elements, I simply don't believe the story.

| Oct 16, 2014

An obvious but strongly humanist drama from first-time feature maker Peter Sattler.

Full Review | Oct 16, 2014

The movie becomes a series of histrionic attempts to be, as Stewart's character says with a pout, ''Just not as black and white as they said it was gonna be.''

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 16, 2014

'Camp X-Ray" already feels like a throwback to an earlier era, when Hollywood cared about what was going on at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for suspected Islamist terrorists.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 16, 2014

There's something insulting about this thoroughly well-intentioned film ...

| Original Score: C | Oct 16, 2014

Stewart seems out to prove her potential with this solemn drama. For the most part, she succeeds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 15, 2014