With ‘Nyad’ now on Netflix, we’ve ranked all 33 of Jodie Foster’s movie performances, including ‘Bugsy Malone,’ ‘Contact,’ and, of course, ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’
Rating: 4 out of 5.
In 2002, Mohamedou Ould Salahi arrived in Guantanamo Bay prison, Cuba, deemed by the Americans to be the mastermind behind 9/11. It would be 14 years before Salahi would prove his innocence and eventually return to his home country of Mauritania.
The Mauritanian tells the story of Salahi (Tahar Rahim) and his lawyers Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster) and Teri Duncan (Shailene Woodley) and their fight for justice against a country seeking vengeance for the September 11 attacks.
Salahi, who joined the Mujahideen fighting in Afghanistan to overthrow the Communist government in the 1980s, trained at Al-Qaida training camps before denouncing the group in the 1990s and returning to his studies in Germany. Despite, this he was captured in his native Mauritania, spending months in a jail in Jordon before arriving in Guantanamo Bay as the highest-value detainee on the base.
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