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Videos & Photos

  • Official Trailer
  • Trailer 3

Movie Info & Cast

Synopsis

A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.

Cast

  • Jodie Foster
  • Tahar Rahim
  • Shailene Woodley
  • Zachary Levi
  • Saamer Usmani
  • Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Langley Kirkwood
  • Corey Johnson

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Fear, terror, torture should not describe American justice

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Metacritic

50
Feb 25, 2021

Sure, The Mauritanian is better than staring at metal bars and better than two hours of rigorous legal preparation. But it isn’t better by much.

Metacritic review by Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
40
Feb 11, 2021

Trapped for the most part in featureless rooms, a stellar cast — including Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch and Shailene Woodley — deliver dull speeches and sift through redacted documents, brows furrowed and lips compressed.

Metacritic review by Jeannette Catsoulis
Jeannette Catsoulis
The New York Times
91
Jan 12, 2021

In the end, The Mauritanian is an efficient procedural that condemns the Bush-era treatment of detainees more effectively than any other recent narrative film. It’s an affecting, but nevertheless tragic, watch.

Metacritic review by Christian Gallichio
Christian Gallichio
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