In Theaters
A random sampling of the citizenry would most likely (if years’ worth of polling, and a general lack of public outrage, can be believed) come up with a good number of people who may not like torturing all them Middle Easterners, but hey, it’s an ugly world…. It’s for those people in particular that Alex Gibney’s deeply unsettling documentary Taxi to the Dark Side should be required viewing, though just about any citizen should feel the film worthy of their time. Gibney, who did a smart job of untangling the tortured and headache-inducing mess that was the Enron case with 2005’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, does similarly swift work here cleaving through the morass of obfuscation and half-truths that have veiled the country’s involvement in torture and extralegal detention since 9/11.Taxi to the Dark Side is still hanging around in limited release; check it out while you can. The full review is at filmcritic.com.
