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12/06/05
Persons of Interest (2004)
90 %
Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 19 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7/10
Runtime: 63 mins
Synopsis: After the September 11th terrorist attacks, more than 5,000 Arab or Muslim immigrants were taken into custody by the U.S. Justice Department and held indefinitely on the grounds of national security. Detainees were subject to arbitrary arrest, secret detention, solitary confinement and... [More]
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Reminds us once more that our freedoms are especially fragile in times of national peril.
10/01/04
Explores the terrible fallout in the lives of Arab and Muslim immigrants whose human rights were violated by the U.S. Justice Department's zealous anti-terrorism campaign.
09/23/04
While it's true the full backgrounds of those interviewed aren't supplied here (nearly all are Muslim, with a majority being Palestinian), the pain, terror and frustration of their experiences sounds and feels authentic.
09/21/04
Top Critic
Watching Persons of Interest makes a viewer realize how fragile the rights that make this country great can be.
09/20/04
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09/05/04
In a spare room with white walls, a sinlgle window, and a plain bench, Alison Maclean and Tobias Perse interview twelve former detainees in America's War against Terror.
09/05/04
These terrible tales of honest lives interrupted and changed forever serve as a frightening indication of just how far astray fear has driven us as a nation.
09/03/04
The callous inequity of what you see and hear will floor you. It can't happen here. But it did. It does.
09/03/04
Delves into one of the most chronically undercovered 9/11 stories -- the still-unknown number of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals detained without trial in the wake of the attacks.
09/03/04
Before the film hits its halfway mark, the presentation feels like a frustrating day at an immigration legal clinic where you can never look at the dossier or get to the bottom of the case.
09/02/04
Top Critic
A stultifying, dreary 63 minutes on film despite its subject matter, the testimony of its subjects, and even the intercutting of particularly rebarbative clips of Attorney General John Ashcroft.
08/31/04
A beautiful, powerful, and moving interrogation that raises troubling questions about Attorney General John Ashcroft's post-attack roundup.
08/31/04
Does an important service by humanizing the costs paid by innocent people caught up in the crackdown.
08/27/04
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