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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyOne of the strengths of Sattler’s screenplay is his refusal to make this a straightforward drama about enemies, injustice or dehumanizing persecution. He makes it about empathy, and in doing so broadens the intimate story to find thematic universality.
- 70VarietyRob NelsonVarietyRob NelsonCamp X-Ray is most commendable for believably depicting the U.S. military from a female’s point of view.
- 66Film.comWilliam GossFilm.comWilliam GossWith its painfully plain-spoken conflicts and eventually oversold gestures of kindness, Camp X-Ray may offer frustratingly little insight into the hazy world of wartime morality, but if nothing else, it suggests that Stewart may escape her own “Twilight”-shaped prison yet.
- It is down to the strength of the acting that the film succeeds as far as it does.
- 60Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlFor much of its running time, Camp X-Ray stands as the fullest on-screen imaginative treatment of two of the defining developments of the last 15 years of American life: the deployment of women in our volunteer army, and the indefinite detention of men we think, but can't quite prove, deserve it.
- 60The DissolveMike D'AngeloThe DissolveMike D'AngeloA credulity-straining duet between two fine actors.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanOK, haters: Here’s the movie meant to silence your complaints about Kristen Stewart’s acting range. And it might, if you can sit through all of it.
- 40The GuardianXan BrooksThe GuardianXan BrooksSattler's film leans on its actors too heavily. It heaps too many implausibilities upon their trembling shoulders. After an hour in Camp X-Ray, the strain starts to show.
- 40Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfJust as you're reeling from the tackiness of this premise, set within such an explosive context, the plot doubles down on it.