A politically charged legal thriller with only an intermittent pulse.
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Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch star as lawyers on opposing sides of a habeas corpus case in Kevin Macdonald s drama based on the memoir of a longtime Guantánamo Bay detainee, played by Tahar Rahim.
Kevin Macdonald has sensational nonfiction material in
The Mauritanian, based on the best-selling memoir
Guantánamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who spent 14 years incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba without ever being charged with a crime. Macdonald is an exceptional documentary maker (
Touching the Void) with a more uneven track record in narrative features (
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