Rendition

The director of the Academy Award-winning 2006 crime drama Tsotsi returns to the helm with this tale of a Middle East CIA operative who begins to have doubts about his latest assignment after witnessing the interrogation of a suspected suicide bomber by secret police. When Egyptian-born chemical ...more

In the fall of 2007, while famously shunning movies about the Middle East and the war on terror, American audiences missed at least one really bracing and original work. Gavin Hood's Rendition may bear a surface resemblance to the home-and-abroad political wranglings of Syriana, but it's actually a better companion piece to Taxi to the Dark Side, shedding light on tactics that came to dominate political debate on the definition of torture. But Hood's structurally tantalizing film is more than ...more