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- Camp X-Ray premiered at Sundance Film Festival with generally positive reviews, with specific praise for Stewart and Moaadi's performances. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives it a rating of 75%, with 59 film critics giving the film a positive review and it has an average rating of 6.4 out of 10.
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Oct 17, 2014 · Camp X-Ray. Matt Zoller Seitz October 17, 2014. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. “Camp X-Ray” has cinematic and moral intelligence. This debut feature by writer-director Peter Sattler about a female soldier stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a quiet, patient drama that focuses on a handful of characters and plays out in a ...
Oct 17, 2014 · Camp X-Ray 's treatment of its subject verges on the shallow, but benefits greatly from a pair of impressive performances from Kristen Stewart and Peyman Moaadi. Read Critics Reviews. TOP...
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By Cliff Wheatley
Updated: Aug 16, 2021 11:59 pm
Posted: Oct 17, 2014 9:08 pm
Peter Sattler’s Camp X-Ray is a film that could just as easily be a stage play; its scenes linger and the director is content to let the camera rest, placing the movie on the shoulders of its leads. Camp X-Ray is dominated by conversations between two characters often talking to one another through a steel door, and yet it’s one of the most moving and engrossing movies I’ve seen this year.
Private Amy Cole (Kristen Stewart) is assigned to be a guard at Guantanamo Bay, where she strikes up a friendship with a detainee – they’re not prisoners, as Cole explains, because then they’d be subject to the Geneva Conventions -- named Ali Amir (Peyman Moaadi), a man that’s been imprisoned there for eight years. What follows is a complex and challenging portrayal of a very delicate relationship; the film opens on the all-too-familiar imagery of the World Trade Center burning on 9/11, bringing the feelings of that day to the forefront before Sattler asks us to sympathize with a man presumed to be a member of al-Qaeda.
The movie’s decision to be vague with Amir’s guilt is part of what makes the movie work as a think piece; it allows Cole to challenge her notions of loyalty to the Army when she begins to realize that she and Amir aren’t all that different. Camp X-Ray is meant to make the viewer uncomfortable, and it succeeds, but not without making a point. This is a movie that stays with you long after the credits roll, but Sattler’s on-point writing and willingness to let the scene play only deserves half the credit.
Camp X-Ray is a penetrating and thought-provoking experience that offers up some damn fine performances from its actors. This is Oscar-worthy acting for sure, but the movie also announces the arrival of Peter Sattler as an auteur to keep a close eye on. His ability to recognize an actor’s performance accompanied by his camera placement and penchant...
- Cliff Wheatley
All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Danielle Davenport One Room With A View. Notwithstanding good performances, potent imagery and cinematic flair, Camp X-Ray does not...
Camp X-Ray premiered at Sundance Film Festival with generally positive reviews, with specific praise for Stewart and Moaadi's performances. [22] [23] The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives it a rating of 75%, with 59 film critics giving the film a positive review and it has an average rating of 6.4 out of 10.
Oct 17, 2014 · Camp X-Ray: Directed by Peter Sattler. With Nawal Bengholam, Payman Maadi, Lane Garrison, J.J. Soria. A soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there.
Anchored by two magnificent performances by Kristen Stewart and Peyman Moaadi, "Camp X-Ray" is a flawed yet very affecting portrait of a relationship that develops in the most unlikeliest of places. "Camp X-Ray" tells the story of a soldier named by Amy Cole, who is assigned to watch detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
