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Camp Xray
A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small town roots. But she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay instead, where her mission is far from black and white. Met with hatred and abuse from the men in her charge, she forges an odd friendship with a young man who has been imprisoned at Gitmo for eight years.
9 April 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
27 June 1951, Ramsey County, Minnesota, USA
15 February 1988, Newport Beach, California, USA
1 August 1963, Boulder, Colorado, USA
10 September 1975, Mishawaka, Indiana, USA
7 April 1976, Lagos, Nigeria
23 May 1980, Dallas, Texas, USA
1970, New York City, New York, USA
February 26, 2016
This is an excellent movie. It is a powerful drama set at the Guantanamo Bay prison. It avoids political posturing and gets down the human interaction between guards and prisoners, while avoiding the usual prison clichés.
June 10, 2015
The final reel of Camp X-Ray is actually kinda terrible, but that's not enough to undo all the excellence that has come before. At least not for me.
June 25, 2015
Writer-director Sattler keeps the drama small and intimate, between two people, focusing on the minutiae of daily life inside the prison and letting us draw the moral implications.
June 21, 2016
The final 15 minutes betray the first 100, hammering all themes into our skulls. It's an unnecessarily on-the-nose finish to a mostly organic central relationship.
January 19, 2016
Superbly unsettling. Pointedly highlights how incarceration dehumanizes inmate and guard alike. Kristen Stewart's steeliness is perfectly suited to its ironies.
October 30, 2014
On another movie, the high-corn finale might have worked; here, it just feels patently false.
June 18, 2016
The baggage Stewart brings to 'Camp X-Ray' makes its first hour more compelling than anything in the screenplay.
November 07, 2014
Camp X-Ray raises quite a few fascinating questions about power, sexism, and war, yet fails to explore them in any real depth. More troubling still, it's a character study that does little in the way of character development.
October 24, 2014
Has a great idea behind it - a young female soldier assigned guard duty at Guantanamo Bay forms a kinship with one of the incarcerated Muslims - but first-time writer-director Peter Sattler doesn't go anywhere interesting with that notion.
October 23, 2014
It helps if you think of "Camp X-Ray" and the prison face-off between Stewart and Maadi as a cautionary conversation unfolding more like a theater production than a movie.
November 06, 2014
Writer-director Peter Sattler... grounds his story in the cold operational detail of Gitmo, showing how the soldiers there administer the legal limbo of indefinite detention and insulate themselves from the cruelty and injustice of what they're doing.
November 06, 2014
It's invigorated, somewhat, by strong central performances from actors on opposite sides of a locked steel door.
