Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)

aka: Taxi to the Darkside

Documentary

1 hr. 46 min.

A seemingly strong-willed, muckraking documentary about the Bush administration's use of torture. From the guys who brought you Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Who Killed the Electric Car?.

Rated R for disturbing images, and content involving torture and graphic nudity

Directed by: Alex Gibney

Starring: Moazzam Begg, William Brand, Jack Cloonan, Damien Corsetti, Carlotta Gall

Theatrical Release Date: 1/18/2008

Release Type: Limited

U.S. Box Office: $274,661

Video/DVD Release Date: 9/30/2008

Distributor: ThinkFilm

Country: USA

Language: English

Offsite: IMDB | Official Site

CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert	8	See this movie...
Chicago Tribune Tasha Robinson	7	It raises a great many uncomfortable, important questions. And predictably, the biggest one is “What comes next?”
Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez	7	...exists to further catalog and expose the Bush administration's crimes against humanity.
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum	9	...usefully horrifying...
New York Times A. O. Scott	9	...essential...
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan	7	...you'd expect Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side to be profoundly disturbing and shocking, and it is. But not always in the ways you'd expect.
People Leah Rozen	8	...a powerful, Oscar-nominated documentary...
LA Weekly Nick Pinkerton	8	...an impressively blueprinted work.
Village Voice Nick Pinkerton	8	...an impressively blueprinted work.
Variety Jay Weissberg	7	Jettisoning parts already covered in other docus would hone impact, but pic's significance is undiminished, and biz should reflect its power.

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	7.8
AVERAGE USER RATING (1 rating)	8.0