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Persons of Interest
Directed by
Alison Maclean
and
Tobias Perse
2004
63m
Documentary
7.5
90%
80%
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A documentary concerning the detention of Muslim-Americans in the wake of 9/11.
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Cast of Persons of Interest
David Paterson
M.I. 6 Agent
Persons of Interest Reviews
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Explores the terrible fallout in the lives of Arab and Muslim immigrants whose human rights were violated by the U.S. Justice Department's zealous anti-terrorism campaign.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The callous inequity of what you see and hear will floor you. It can't happen here. But it did. It does.
Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirschling
A resonant documentary.
Newsday
John Anderson
Powerful, anger-provoking documentary.
Hollywood Bitchslap
Dan Lybarger
Watching Persons of Interest makes a viewer realize how fragile the rights that make this country great can be.
New York Times
Ned Martel
Before the film hits its halfway mark, the presentation feels like a frustrating day at an immigration legal clinic where you can never look at the dossier or get to the bottom of the case.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Delves into one of the most chronically undercovered 9/11 stories -- the still-unknown number of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals detained without trial in the wake of the attacks.
E! Online
E! Staff
A disturbing account of how fear can too easily foster injustice.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
These terrible tales of honest lives interrupted and changed forever serve as a frightening indication of just how far astray fear has driven us as a nation.
About.com
Marcy Dermansky
In a spare room with white walls, a sinlgle window, and a plain bench, Alison Maclean and Tobias Perse interview twelve former detainees in America's War against Terror.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
Reminds us once more that our freedoms are especially fragile in times of national peril.
Variety
Robert Koehler
While it's true the full backgrounds of those interviewed aren't supplied here (nearly all are Muslim, with a majority being Palestinian), the pain, terror and frustration of their experiences sounds and feels authentic.
Village Voice
Ward Harkavy
A beautiful, powerful, and moving interrogation that raises troubling questions about Attorney General John Ashcroft's post-attack roundup.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Not a great movie, but a valuable and revealing document.
culturevulture.net
Les Wright
Timely, penetrating journalism at its finest
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
A stultifying, dreary 63 minutes on film despite its subject matter, the testimony of its subjects, and even the intercutting of particularly rebarbative clips of Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Boxoffice Magazine
Michael Tunison
Does an important service by humanizing the costs paid by innocent people caught up in the crackdown.
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
As a documentary, Persons of Interest could've benefited from further elaboration of the actual policies put in place, but as is it's still a disturbing, matter-of-fact look at the consequences of letting fear engineer such policy.
Offoffoff
Joshua Tanzer
Persons of Interest is not bold or especially creative filmmaking. It's a document, plain and simple, and an important one.
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