Reviews

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  The film is a stinging indictment on US tactics at Guantanamo and, perhaps worse still, a coruscating look at Canada's role in this specific matter.

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  Eye for Film 4.5/5

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  This film recording the interrogation of a young Canadian in Guantánamon is a brutal document of modern cruelty

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  The Guardian 4/5

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  Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez’s exposé of the sinister interrogation methods used by our ‘civilised’ governments is worthy of 100 minutes of anyone’s time.

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  Time Out 4/5

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  Avoiding the temptation to re-try Khadr on film, this exposes the dynamics of the interrogation sessions and lets Khadr’s coerced confession speak for itself in making his guilty plea bargain seem all the more shockingly unjust.

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  Empire 4/5

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  Secretly recorded footage from a Guantanamo Bay interrogation of 16-year-old Canadian citizen Omar Khadr forms the core of this compelling doc.

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  Total Film 4/5

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  A powerful, moving and still very pertinent film

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  Screendaily

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  Luc Cote and Patricio Henrique have made one of the most harrowing documentaries about Guantanamo Bat without showing a drop of blood

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  Cinema Eye 4/5

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  It is an appalling tale of injustice that reflects badly on both the US administration that has incarcerated him and the Canadian government

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  The Observer