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The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair (2007)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:24
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.9/10
Runtime: 72 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Petra Epperlain and Michael Tucker's documentary uses humor to explore the heartbreaking story of an innocent man's imprisonment. Yunis is an Iraqi journalist living happily with his family in... [More]
Director: Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
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07/10/08
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06/28/07
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05/12/07
Top CriticThe American military comes across as bungling and ineffective as protectors. If people thought we didn't know what we were doing in Iraq before, this is yet more evidence of our incompetence.
04/23/07
... a chillingly pitch-black comedy of errors ...
04/09/07
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04/09/07
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04/07/07
Top CriticI would have preferred a clearer narrative that was easier to understand, without all the comic-book gimmicks. Despite those faults, the documentary is worth seeing.
04/04/07
The filmmaker’s methodology backfires by undercutting the credibility of the testimony presented and overshadowing any actual miscarriage of justice.
03/31/07
[Abbas'] story demands to be heard, though Tucker and Epperlein lack the material for a full feature and pad this out to 73 minutes with some incongruously playful elements.
03/30/07
Top CriticAbbas could tell his interrogators nothing they wanted to know, but everything we needed to know about their tactics.
03/30/07
Top CriticIt's an angry story, but also a strangely hopeful one, in the sense of new life sprouting through a battlefield. Above all, it's personal and specific, and that is news we can use.
03/30/07
Top CriticThe film makes clear its point about the profound failures of justice caused by aggressive attempts at arrests and detention.
03/30/07
The Prisoner doesn't try to put the entire war in context or offer broad solutions. It's a focused slice of the war, covering an issue that you've probably wondered about but haven't seen in many other places.
03/30/07
Top CriticA modestly mounted, but curiously poignant little documentary which somehow -- quietly, devastatingly -- shows and tells you more than you may perhaps want to know about the dehumanization implicit in the mighty, blighted Iraqi adventure.
03/30/07
Top CriticWhat's troubling about the film's technique is its lack of context; we must take Yuris, who speaks serviceable English, pretty much at his word. What's troubling about his story is its ring of truth.
03/30/07
Top CriticThe Prisoner is a triumph of specificity. It is one man's story, told in scrupulous and vivid detail.
03/29/07
Top CriticNone of The Prisoner's showy flourishes -- animation, sound effects, fancy editing -- can match the power of Abbas' stillness as he describes one man's agony in one huge hell.
03/28/07
Top CriticTurns out that every country, every civilization, has its good eggs as well as its bad ones. What The Prisoner clearly shows us is that this Administration has no interest in learning the difference between the two.
03/27/07
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