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A brilliant study in the link between moral corruption and narcissism.
88
Schroeder's film is a fascinating character study in contradictions and in the end Verges remains loathsome, oddly charismatic and willfully enigmatic.
88
Outrageous controversialist meets brilliant attorney, and fact intertwines with fiction.
88
If the roots of terrorism are hopelessly snarled, Terror's Advocate does a very good job of exposing some of the soil in which they grow.
83
The title Terror's Advocate is both a statement of fact and a worrisome understatement in a documentary as slippery as its subject.
80
Terror's Advocate is largely a mix of talking heads and archival footage, but as Vergés's connections to Swiss neo-Nazis and Congo secessionists are explored, the movie becomes a fantastic international thriller.
80
It is one of the most engaging, morally unsettling political thrillers in quite some time, with the extra advantage of being true.
80
It is the gift of Terror's Advocate, Barbet Schroeder's riveting new documentary, to simply present Vergès as is, to say "here is the man" and let things speak for themselves. Do they ever.
75
If nothing else, Terror's Advocate offers a useful summary of the last half-century of global politics, and how changing public perceptions can make goats out of heroes.
75
A complex story.
