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Tasha Robinson, Chicago Tribune: The most extraordinary thing about the grim Best Documentary Academy Award nominee Taxi to the Dark Side is how straightforward its interviewees are about the military prisoner they collectively murdered in Afghanistan in 2002. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Taxi to the Dark Side adds something new to our awareness -- interviews with soldiers who served as interrogators in Afghanistan, and in Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, and who, in some cases, served prison terms themselves. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Exhaustively researched and shattering documentary by Alex Gibney. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Taxi to the Dark Side is a stunning indictment of torture as policy, a brilliant documentary whose arguments are so well-supported and reasonably made that you can't ignore them. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: One of the most powerful, carefully researched investigations of the moral-legal side effects of current American military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A meticulous examination...Taxi is impressive. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Like the Iraq war documentary No End in Sight, this movie about the U.S. military's systematic torture of terror suspects is a triumph not of reporting but of synthesis. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The usefully horrifying documentary Taxi to the Dark Side follows a map that leads to the notorious prison abuses in Iraq's Abu Ghraib to policies in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: Taxi to the Dark Side joins a growing list of outspoken documentaries that question the rationale and conduct of America's presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, and our willingness to destroy freedom in order to save it. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: Along with No End in Sight, this movie is one of the essential documentaries of the ongoing war. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Alex Gibney's Taxi to the Dark Side is the documentary that many of us have prayed for, the one that could break through even to people who relish the torture set pieces on 24 and will hear no evil about the War on Terror. Read more
Bob Mondello, NPR.org: Certain to inspire both outrage and sorrow, Alex Gibney's harrowing documentary -- about the torture and abuse of suspected terrorists in U.S. military prisons -- ranks among recent cinema's more excoriating moral indictments. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: By the time it's over, [director Gibney has] broadened his focus into a documentary so damning of the U.S. government, it's hard to believe he even got it made. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: I hope that every concerned moviegoer sees this film, but I doubt that many will. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: So disturbing, on so many levels, that it's hard to know where to begin. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Horrifying. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: It's about what we have done (or at least allowed to be done in our name), why we should be ashamed and angry, and whether we have the honor and decency to stop it. If America still has a soul, Alex Gibney is trying to save it. Read more
Tamara Straus, San Francisco Chronicle: Will go down in film history as a damning historical document of the Bush administration's wartime expansion of executive powers. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: As our society searches its conscience for the correct balance between preserving American lives and upholding American values, Gibney offers a crucial perspective to counterbalance the influence of eye-for-an-eye gut instinct. Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Taxi to the Dark Side may not be your idea of a fun, relaxing night at the movies, but it is artful moviemaking and vital viewing for anyone interested in the issues. Read more
Philip Marchand, Toronto Star: The film certainly makes its case, tracing a chain of abuse from Bagram to the notorious Iraqi prison, Abu Ghraib, to the cells of Guantanamo. Read more
David Fear, Time Out: The more testimonies you hear from guards, journalists and a former Gitmo detainee about what's going on behind closed doors, the more a horrific bigger picture appears. Read more
Jay Weissberg, Variety: [Director] Gibney has crafted more than just an important document of systemic abuse -- he's stripped the rhetoric from official doublespeak to expose a callous disregard for not only the Geneva Conventions but the vision of the Founding Fathers. Read more
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Without cheapening the suffering of American or Afghan, the film retrieves the torture issue from the realm of the abstract and gives the plain facts of this world right now. As long as we still care about people and power, they will matter. Read more