The Mauritanian (2021)


A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.

The Mauritanian (2021)

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Released Year: 2021
Runtime: 129 minutes
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Directors: Kevin Macdonald

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A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.

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Reviews


91
The Playlist - Christian Gallichio
In the end, The Mauritanian is an efficient procedural that condemns the Bush-era treatment of detainees more effectively than any other recent narrative film. It’s an affecting, but nevertheless tragic, watch.
70
Variety - Peter Debruge
The story gains momentum as it goes, and by the end, it’s positively gripping.
63
Washington Post - Michael O'Sullivan
Despite a powerful performance by Tahar Rahim in the title role, and despite such marquee names as Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch in the supporting roles of Slahi’s attorney, Nancy Hollander, and Stu Couch, the Marine lawyer assigned to prosecute him — despite scenes of grotesque abuse that inflame the conscience — the movie lands, through no fault of its own other than timing, with a whiff of been-there, done-that.
55
TheWrap - Alonso Duralde
Perhaps the biggest issue for The Mauritanian is that the screenplay by M.B Traven and Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani tries to accommodate too many protagonists.
50
Slant Magazine - Chuck Bowen
Kevin Macdonald’s film never captures the spectrum of a life lived in unimaginable extremis.

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