Synopsis
A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees.
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Cast
- Kristen StewartAmy Cole
- Payman MaadiAli
- Lane GarrisonRandy
- J. J. SoriaRico
- John Carroll LynchCol. Drummond
- Julia DuffyBetty
- Cory Michael SmithBergen
- Nawal BengholamNewscaster
- Tara HoltMary
- Yousuf AzamiEhan
Recommendations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
One of the strengths of Sattler’s screenplay is his refusal to make this a straightforward drama about enemies, injustice or dehumanizing persecution. He makes it about empathy, and in doing so broadens the intimate story to find thematic universality. - 70
Variety
Camp X-Ray is most commendable for believably depicting the U.S. military from a female’s point of view. - 66
Film.com
With its painfully plain-spoken conflicts and eventually oversold gestures of kindness, Camp X-Ray may offer frustratingly little insight into the hazy world of wartime morality, but if nothing else, it suggests that Stewart may escape her own “Twilight”-shaped prison yet. - 60
The Telegraph
It is down to the strength of the acting that the film succeeds as far as it does. - 60
Village Voice
For much of its running time, Camp X-Ray stands as the fullest on-screen imaginative treatment of two of the defining developments of the last 15 years of American life: the deployment of women in our volunteer army, and the indefinite detention of men we think, but can't quite prove, deserve it. - 60
The Dissolve
A credulity-straining duet between two fine actors. - 60
New York Daily News
OK, haters: Here’s the movie meant to silence your complaints about Kristen Stewart’s acting range. And it might, if you can sit through all of it. - 58
IndieWire
In between the meandering exchanges lies an unquestionably thoughtful interrogation of a broken system.
