Why not a new style rather than hiring someone to ape a past collaborator? That’s the exact problem repeated on every level.

| Jan 25, 2023

The film may not be Morris's strongest film, but it's certainly a worthy edition to the pantheon of investigative oddities he's been building over the course of the last three decades.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2020

A gladiatorial bout for the Information Age, we may not come out knowing a much more than we did going in, but it's hard to dismiss the historical value Morris' interrogation may have in the future.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 8, 2019

[A] disconnect between content and intent characterizes the entirety of his film.

| Apr 10, 2018

As a history lesson in digest form, it's eminently valuable for cracking Rumsfeld's cheshire grin without employing unsound interrogation methods.

| Oct 10, 2017

He poses simple questions and lets them talk, and talk, and talk. In doing so, he gives them enough rope to hang themselves.

| Jun 18, 2016

Frustrating and fascinating.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 11, 2015

Delights in exploring sophistry and fine distinctions of language.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 27, 2014

It's about how human beings make horrific mistakes sometimes without ever understanding why ... and without ever once thinking they did.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 1, 2014

Part political portrait, part Iraq war post-mortem, part interrogation, it's a fascinating look at a man who -- like it or not -- will go down in history.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 1, 2014

This documentary interview with Bush-era insider Donald Rumsfeld is like a horror movie with a calm sociopath at its center.

| Jul 1, 2014

It is, by definition, nonfiction, but at times suggests a horror movie.

| Jun 30, 2014

The Unknown Known doesn't paint Rumsfeld into the Shakespearean archetype that Morris intended; instead he toed the company line. This documentary has Rumsfeld winning on points.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 5, 2014

Not even Errol Morris' infamous Interrotron - a camera-rig that gazes right into the subject's freaking soul - can pierce an unyielding Donald Rumsfeld in The Unknown Known.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 5, 2014

The Unknown Known is like being stuck in a swamp.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2014

Morris's commentary comes in the form of stunning images ... and a truly beautiful score ... The Unknown Known is revealing, but what it reveals is emptiness.

| Apr 21, 2014

[A] scary inquiry.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 18, 2014

Donald Rumsfeld and Errol Morris live on opposite sides of the screen

| Apr 18, 2014

By now the director's technique is so savvy, so confident in its visual layering and atmospheric assurance, even a dodgy, cagey camera subject such as Rumsfeld becomes movieworthy.

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

Morris has questions, Rumsfeld has quibbles, and most of what he gets from the man are those infernal little grins that someone must have told him in his youth were very, very cute. He seems to think that he's impish, a mere scamp.

| Apr 16, 2014