Camp X-Ray Reviews
November 7, 2014
Camp X-Ray raises quite a few fascinating questions about power, sexism, and war, yet fails to explore them in any real depth. More troubling still, it's a character study that does little in the way of character development.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
October 30, 2014
On another movie, the high-corn finale might have worked; here, it just feels patently false.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
October 24, 2014
Has a great idea behind it - a young female soldier assigned guard duty at Guantanamo Bay forms a kinship with one of the incarcerated Muslims - but first-time writer-director Peter Sattler doesn't go anywhere interesting with that notion.
October 18, 2014
Kirsten Stewart and Peyman Moaadi ably take center stage in the Gitmo drama Camp X-Ray, but do we need to be reminded that we're not that different again?
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| Original Score: 6/10
October 17, 2014
An expensively mounted treatise on important issues that's terrified to dig in obsessively, yet so ramrod-stiff with indignation that it never comes anywhere near compelling entertainment.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
October 17, 2014
Camp X-Ray seems more outraged by military sexism than the notion that Gitmo remains open in the Age of Obama.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
October 16, 2014
Despite the movie's gripping performances and the verisimilitude of many elements, I simply don't believe the story.
October 16, 2014
An on-the-nose approach smothers all subtext into submission and leaves nothing of interest alive.
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| Original Score: C-
October 16, 2014
The movie becomes a series of histrionic attempts to be, as Stewart's character says with a pout, ''Just not as black and white as they said it was gonna be.''
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| Original Score: C+
October 16, 2014
'Camp X-Ray" already feels like a throwback to an earlier era, when Hollywood cared about what was going on at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for suspected Islamist terrorists.
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| Original Score: 2/4
October 16, 2014
There's something insulting about this thoroughly well-intentioned film ...
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| Original Score: C
January 25, 2014
Twilight's Kristen Stewart demonstrates a decent performance in Camp X-Ray, a movie about Guantanamo Bay with high potential that is frustratingly wasted.
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| Original Score: 5/10
January 21, 2014
Do these performances outweigh a scenario that feels written by a politically outraged 12-year-old?
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| Original Score: 2/5
January 19, 2014
First-time writer-director Peter Sattler's pic means very well, but strains credibility and ethics alike.
January 19, 2014
So crude and overstretched, it's a wonder [Stewart] didn't attempt to tunnel out before the credits rolled.
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| Original Score: 2/5