
A young soldier escapes her suffocating small town by joining the military, only to find that she isn't going for a tour of duty in Iraq as she hoped. Instead, she's sent to Guantanamo. Met with hatred and abuse from the men in her charge, she forges an odd friendship with a young man who has been imprisoned at Gitmo for eight years.... (Full plot summary below)
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A young soldier escapes her suffocating small town by joining the military, only to find that she isn't going for a tour of duty in Iraq as she hoped. Instead, she's sent to Guantanamo. Met with hatred and abuse from the men in her charge, she forges an odd friendship with a young man who has been imprisoned at Gitmo for eight years.
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| FlavorwireJason BaileyThe baggage Stewart brings to 'Camp X-Ray' makes its first hour more compelling than anything in the screenplay. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordFeaturing a dynamic performance from Maadi and thoughtful one from Stewart, the claustrophobic drama only falters when it leans too heavily on obvious metaphors and screenwriting cliches in its final moments. |
| The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicCamp X-Ray is as transparent in its message as the title suggests, and the scan shows a malignant tumor in the very bones of the film’s structure. An on-the-nose approach smothers all subtext into submission and leaves nothing of interest alive. |
| AV ClubVadim RizovX-Ray is extremely dull, and unwisely trusting in the power of its talented central duo to carry the film. |
| USA TodayBrian TruittIt's that kind of performance, while holding her own with misogynistic soldiers and combing her hair with a plastic knife, that makes Stewart's talent stand at attention more than anything else. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonSuperbly unsettling. Pointedly highlights how incarceration dehumanizes inmate and guard alike. Kristen Stewart's steeliness is perfectly suited to its ironies. |
| Spliced PersonalitySean BurnsThe final reel of Camp X-Ray is actually kinda terrible, but that's not enough to undo all the excellence that has come before. At least not for me. |
| Monsters and CriticsRon WilkinsonA lean and mean essay on human bondage, a minimalist examination of living life to the least. |
| Entertainment WeeklyJoe McGovernThe depiction of Guantánamo Bay as a banal, ugly hole of a place waiting to be condemned makes for a compelling first half hour in this military drama. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesWriter-director Peter Sattler... grounds his story in the cold operational detail of Gitmo, showing how the soldiers there administer the legal limbo of indefinite detention and insulate themselves from the cruelty and injustice of what they're doing. |