Winterbottom sidesteps obligations associated with documentary filmmaking in favor of blazing agitprop.

| Mar 28, 2018

The Road to Guantánamo will drive you crazy, if you aren't crazy yet.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2006

It makes its point in a way that a straight documentary could not.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 7, 2006

While not an altogether convincing character study of the three detainees, Guantanamo is a nonetheless chilling indictment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 7, 2006

Winterbottom's re-enactors do a persuasive job of depicting young men whose ad hoc decision to travel from Pakistan to Afghanistan put them solidly in the wrong-place/wrong-time category.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2006

A bracing docu-drama.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 7, 2006

The moviemakers tell the trio's engrossing story with a mix of battering immediacy, precision and discretion that puts you totally in the movie's grip.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2006

One-sided and, in part, anti-American, but via the fictionalized sequences, the directors convey more angles of the story.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 6, 2006

...oddly unilluminating.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 5, 2006

It actually displays a remarkable rectitude when it comes to dramatizing its subjects' ordeal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 30, 2006

A British docudrama that is as provocative as it is timely.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 30, 2006

...the film's urgency can tilt toward shrillness, but nobody else has made the disaster of Guantánamo so painfully vivid.

Full Review | Jun 26, 2006

It's stunning and it's certain to spark a lot of discussion. But as a film, as a piece of art I think it's a very important piece of art.

Full Review | Jun 26, 2006

A few flaws undermine the moral, political and dramatic force of the filmmakers' 'argument.'

| Jun 24, 2006

Watching this mélange of journalism and dramatic license can be enthralling and maddening at the same time, because the ring of truth, which the film has, is not the same as the truth, which remains unknown.

| Jun 23, 2006

Reality and make-believe get more than mixed: They get muddled.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 23, 2006

A film that must be seen to understand the sad truths of our times.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 23, 2006

A riveting and disturbing documentary that falls short of greatness by not providing enough insight into the characters.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 23, 2006

The Road to Guantanamo is a missed opportunity. This is a subject that deserves a more thoughtful documentary or docudrama, not a hastily thrown together amalgam of the two.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 23, 2006

The movie begins as a not very compelling or particularly convincing road movie, and turns into a riveting prison drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 23, 2006