Taxi to the Dark Side still makes an impact all these years later and it’s lost none of its original impact.

| Oct 4, 2024

Gibney approaches his subject in a clear-eyed way that keeps the film from becoming a political screed.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 2019

Gracefully weaving together interviews (some with the soldiers convicted of the beating), fresh images and official photographs, it suggests why so many politically themed fiction films have failed.

| Nov 30, 2017

Taxi to the Dark Side. . .examines the war in Iraq with clear-eyed rage.

| Aug 23, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

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.

| Aug 29, 2011

Filmmaker Gibney, whose involvement with anti-establishment exposés could conceivably mark him for his own eventual rendition by the forces of freedom, carefully guides us up the chain of command to the policy level.

| Apr 28, 2011

Consciously depressing, draining and damning. A dizzying, disorienting tone befits indictments against vulgarly abused power, and Gibney avoids judging soldiers already punished in accordance with a system of blame shamefully traveling down, never up.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 22, 2010

A shocking expose about the American military's use of torture to get confessions--not always truthful ones--from prisoners suspected of terrorism. This is the kind of film that can make a difference!

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 26, 2009

[An] assiduously investigated, brilliantly argued documentary.

| Apr 23, 2009

Nails the fact that murder, injuries, sexual abuse, humiliation and degradation of prisoners was covered up and condoned at the highest levels of the Bush Administration.

| Original Score: A | Mar 19, 2009

A comprehensive movie, an everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask film, engaging, paced well, informative, and professionally polished.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 14, 2008

This is a deservedly acclaimed film; it's confronting and deeply saddening, but essential

| Nov 8, 2008

Alex Gibney won best documentary Oscar for this gruelling, angry movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2008

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.

| Oct 18, 2008

Impossible to shake off.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

A consistently strong piece of filmmaking with some breathtaking work by cinematographers Maryse Alberti and Greg Andracke.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2008

An unflinching documentary that exposes one of the darkest chapters in American history.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

It's very powerful but disturbing stuff.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Gibney asks us to ponder the likelihood of getting good information from suspects turned in by bounty-hunting locals (more than 90% of those jailed for terrorist activity or connections to terrorists were fingered for a reward).

| Oct 18, 2008