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

(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

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

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

Watching a spy sit on the couch waiting for text messages from higher-ups may not sound as compelling as a le Carr novel, but it's a necessary build to a pulse-pounding third act that reveals how lives are destroyed by half-truths and hearsay.

| Sep 30, 2015

A vital expose of American law enforcement carried out with almost reckless zeal.

| Sep 30, 2015

(T)Error is something in between Burn After Reading and a Dostoevsky novel, except everything happens for real.

| Sep 30, 2015

That's a fairly delicious scenario, but even so, the film never really catches fire

| Sep 30, 2015

It displays a staggering propensity for carefully examining its unauthorized scenario without succumbing to either too insular or too general a set of assertions.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 7, 2015

This information needs to be shown to the public, and some will be drawn to it regardless of its form. But as a well-crafted film, it has a long way to go.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 28, 2015