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Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Leave your thoughts about Standard Operating Procedure.
| Houston ChronicleAmy BiancolliThe result is a devastating film, and an important one. |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsBob StraussRelentless unpleasantness may be the most appropriate quality of this movie that disturbs in so many different ways. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertDisturbing, analytical and morose. This is not a "political" film nor yet another screed about the Bush administration or the war in Iraq. It is driven simply, powerfully, by the desire to understand those photographs. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesThis film by the masterful Errol Morris gets closer to the actual events than any of them, with probing interviews of soldiers who were involved and careful scrutiny of the hundreds of photographs retrieved from three digital cameras at the prison. |
| Kaplan vs. KaplanJeanne KaplanAfter Errol Morris' "Fog of War", I was expecting something more provocative from him --- instead, what we get is a very lengthy, often repetitive viewing of the infamous photographs of Abu Ghraib. |
| NewsdayRafer GuzmanYou probably won't find a more illuminating account of what happened within the walls of Abu Ghraib. |
| Seattle TimesJeff ShannonMorris explores the reality of Abu Ghraib with a visceral intensity that straightforward reportage could never allow. |
| SlateDana StevensWhile Morris isn't interested in exonerating anyone, he clearly sympathizes to some degree with the MPs and deplores the military's fall-guy strategy, which punished these seven soldiers as exemplary "bad apples" while leaving all higher-ranking officers untouched. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrIn Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris does something inconceivable and, at first glance, ill-advised. He gives the US soldiers of Abu Ghraib back their humanity. |
| In These TimesMichael AtkinsonMorris' manic devotion to detail ultimately does the film in. |