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By Walter M (1,360) on 25 Jan 2008

[font=Century Gothic]The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair is an eye-opening documentary about Iraqi journalist Yunis Khatayer…

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By Anthony M (1,059) on 11 Dec 2007

Unusual and creatively made documentary about an Iraqi journalist who was wrongly arrested and sent to Abu Ghraib for a plot to kill Tony Blair…

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By Eli T (98) on 02 Dec 2007

Both frightening and incredibly moving. if you believe that america is a humane country, this film might prove you wrong…

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By Philip Kennicott (38) for Washington Post (9,851) on 01 Dec 2007

It is a film rich in detail, the kind that simply never emerges in the nightly news accounts of the war…

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By Sarah O (298) on 15 Nov 2007

Excellent footage of what is occuring in Iraq--very dramatic and heart breaking, but an excellent documentary…

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By Randy B (299) on 18 Oct 2007

I liked it! Not groundbreaking but still very interesting. Worth seeing if you like documentaries…

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Review of The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (2007)

By Private U (13,627) on 16 Oct 2007

Very disturbing film about the injustice against an Iraqi man and his family. Very good flick…

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Review of The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (2007)

By Rory W (48) on 16 Aug 2007

Not really that good. If you didn't know this stuff was going on, then wake up…

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Review of The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (2007)

By Corey C (511) on 10 Jul 2007

A great account of one prisoners horrible experience with American intelligence in Iraq and the Abu Ghraib prison…

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Review of The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (2007)

By Andrew H (1,696) on 11 Jun 2007

This movie was rather hard to watch for the fact of the injustices done to the Iraqi people in Abu Graib…

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By Beverly Berning (44) for culturevulture.net (793) on 22 Apr 2007

The American military comes across as bungling and ineffective as protectors…

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By Adamh. (15) on 09 Apr 2007

This film is a sequel of sorts to Gunner Palace the Iraq film that came out in 2005…

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By Jette Kernion (87) for Cinematical (752) on 03 Apr 2007

I would have preferred a clearer narrative that was easier to understand, without all the comic-book gimmicks…

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By John P. Mccarthy (315) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 30 Mar 2007

The filmmaker's methodology backfires by undercutting the credibility of the testimony presented and overshadowing any actual miscarriage of justice…

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Review of The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (2007)

By J. R. Jones (1,337) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 29 Mar 2007

[Abbas'] story demands to be heard, though Tucker and Epperlein lack the material for a full feature and pad this out to 73 minutes with some…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 29 Mar 2007

It's an angry story, but also a strangely hopeful one, in the sense of new life sprouting through a battlefield…

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By Marrit Ingman (203) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 29 Mar 2007

The film makes clear its point about the profound failures of justice caused by aggressive attempts at arrests and detention…

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Review of The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (2007)

By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 29 Mar 2007

While the documentary isn't as compelling as its source material, Abbas tells an interesting story about his incarceration…

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By Richard Schickel (546) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 29 Mar 2007

A modestly mounted, but curiously poignant little documentary…

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Review of The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (2007)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 27 Mar 2007

Eight months of interrogation and torture in fetid Abu Ghraib followed before he was released, innocent…

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