Taxi to the Dark Side

The new documentary looks at torture's effects on victims and perpetrators

Given its subject matter, and its title, 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. A meticulous examination of the Bush administration's embracing of torture as a weapon of choice in the war against terrorism by the director of "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," "Taxi" is impressive enough to have taken the best documentary prize at the Tribeca Film Festival and to be a likely finalist for the documentary Oscar when the contenders are announced next week. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4717 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 18 gennaio 2008