Cabral and Sutcliffe try their best to paint a portrait of Shariff, but their attempts wind up dragging the film down, largely because of their subject's resistance.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 24, 2019

In most movies, US government agents, invariably play the hero (or heroine) thoughtful, competent, and above all, ethical. To see a portrait of the inner workings of the FBI we have to look to films like the new documentary, (T)ERROR.

| Mar 8, 2019

The duo never loses sight of the true cost of this craziness, a war waged on American soil with little rhyme or reason that's everywhere and nowhere at once, making a film that no matter what your experience, will hit you right where you live.

| Nov 15, 2018

The film is both angry and resigned.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 5, 2016

Good or evil, (T)error at least makes the characters of America's homeland war on terror into real people.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 30, 2015

A sympathetic but clear-eyed character study transforms into something more insidious, sobering and infuriating in "(T)error," a superb documentary that personalizes the U.S. War on Terror in ways that make the human toll intimate and unmistakable.

Full Review | Dec 22, 2015

Beyond the conventional espionage on display, they confront viewers with the prospect of civil liberties violations amid the extensive surveillance currently taking place in the United States.

| Dec 15, 2015

What unfolds is a comedy of (t)errors with a central character who shifts very quickly between dubious but likeable guy, buffoon and sociopath.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 16, 2015

(T)ERROR becomes a frightening story about how even the most inept among the powerful still wield a tremendous amount of power.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2015

(T)error slightly over-simplifies the idea of who is right and wrong by the end. Still, it's a riveting look below the surface of law enforcement.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Oct 20, 2015

The domestic War on Terror uncovered as an overzealous violation of Muslims' Constitutional rights.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 19, 2015

(T)error, like the punctuation in its title suggests, goes from being a tense procedural and absorbing character study to an astonishing, real-life satire about the surveillance state.

| Oct 11, 2015

There have been documentaries in the past about FBI entrapment but none featuring an entrapper and entrapped. An amazing breakthrough and chilling drama.

| Oct 10, 2015

The resulting portrait of the domestic anti-terrorism campaign, although it's admittedly a portrait in miniature, could hardly be more disheartening.

| Oct 7, 2015

As the story plays out, the cheap thrill of peeking behind the curtain turns into creeping dread, and then outrage.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 7, 2015

As compelling as its restless images are, the film never lets you forget what you can't see, what's out of frame, what's deliberately hidden and what's receding from view even as you look.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Oct 7, 2015

A film that feels depressingly essential to understanding that just because we haven't been attacked doesn't mean we're winning the war.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 7, 2015

Because of its shortcomings, "(T)error" serves as evidence of a broken system rather than an indictment of it. Yet such evidence is worrisome and points to a threat to civil rights.

| Oct 7, 2015

The war on terror bumbles home in Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe's amusing and dismaying portrait of incompetence and entrapment.

| Oct 6, 2015

A stunning, infuriating indictment of the current incarnation of the War on Terror.

| Sep 30, 2015