Who’s in it: Shafiq Rasul, Ruhel Amhed, Asif Iqbal and the actors who play them, Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun and Arfan Usman (from left in photo at right)
What it’s about: A mix of first-person interviews, recreations and news reports to tell the story of three British teenagers who were traveling in Afghanistan in 2001 when they were captured by American forces. They were imprisoned in Cuba without charge, where they were tortured and denied access to lawyers or their families.
Worth watching? (star)(star)(star)
“The movie is told unapologetically from the former detainees’ perspectives. … [Director Michael] Winterbottom’s re-enactors do a persuasive job of depicting young men whose ad hoc decision to travel from Pakistan to Afghanistan put them solidly in the wrong-place/wrong-time category.”