Like his other investigative looks into the evil that men (and women) do, Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War) here obtains the first-person testimony of the soldiers charged with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in 2004 and lets the perpetrators explain themselves straight into the camera. It’s hard not to recoil, as their self-justifications clash with the repellent photographic evidence. Morris gives the soldiers enough rope but lets you decide whether they should hang. Were they scapegoats for those much higher up the chain of command?

"essential" - The Onion

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