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10/18/08
Terror's Advocate (2007)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:34
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Terror's Advocate is a fascinating portrayal of a controversial political figure; both morally unsettling and emotionally gripping.
Theatrical Release:Oct 12, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Communist, anti-colonialist, right-wing extremist? What convictions guide the moral mind of Jacques Vergès? Barbet Schroeder takes us down history’s darkest paths in his attempt to illuminate the... [More]
Director: Barbet Schroeder
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10/18/08
If you want to see a who's who in terror, just take a peek at this guy's client list.
11/21/07
Scarcely an exposé, Terror's Advocate is more plainly a portrait of a man as a timeline.
10/07/07
Despite extensive interview footage with Vergès himself, Terror's Advocate fails to crack its enigmatic subject matter.
10/12/07
It's a movie that cries out for a good editor.
10/19/07
Talk about a hard sell.
10/12/07
Top CriticSchroeder's approach to this controversial figure is more plodding than it should be.
11/30/07
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05/16/08
Terror's Advocate is one of the most engaging, morally unsettling political thrillers in quite some time, with the extra advantage of being true.
10/12/07
Top CriticAbout halfway through ... the movie's two-hour-plus running time begins to drag, as Shroeder's narrative seems more and more a catalog of events.
10/12/07
As riveting as it is dizzying, Schroeder's documentary thriller takes a mesmerising ad hominem approach to twentieth century terror, offering up for our judgement an advocate whose views ought to be indefensible.
05/12/08
Though the film comes with a warning that it expresses only the point of view of its director, in reality, what Schroeder seems to offer is a portrait of a glib man who simply defies any conclusive description.
01/30/08
Terror's Advocate elucidates the character and defense mechanisms of a man much more complex and radical than the George Bushes of the world.
10/13/07
If Terror's Advocate doesn't precisely interrogate the rise of terrorism, it does look at its romance and consider its effectiveness.
01/17/08
That [director] Schroeder doesn't offer simple explanations gives his tale honesty and fascination.
10/11/07
A brilliant study in the link between moral corruption and narcissism.
10/20/07
Top CriticAt its best, the documentary shows us an unsavory character answering a bunch of softball questions and whose best logic is to play the Third World race card.
01/23/09
So loaded with information, the "fog of war" morphs into a more enveloping fog of politics and ethics.
10/17/07
Schroeder's docu offers a chilly, poignant look at Verges, the controversial lawyer who has defended some of the world's biggest political terrorists and war criminals; it belongs in the same league of his other docus about monsters, like Idi Amin.
09/08/07
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