Alex Gibney’s Taxi to the Dark Side is ending tomorrow. Remember the banned poster?

The doc almost tips into McCain hagiography near the end, but on this issue, he almost deserves it. (Barring any bad behavior today.) Here’s my short review:

From the director of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room comes this excellent overview of the uses and justifications of torture in American detention centers from Bagram to Guantánamo Bay. The film opens with the story of Dilawar, an Afghan taxi driver who was picked up in 2002 on flimsy charges, tortured for days, and ultimately murdered (the military autopsy ruled his death a homicide) by his captors. Taxi to the Dark Side makes a compelling case that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Justice Department bigshot John Yoo together crafted a policy that prizes confessions at the expense of both useful intelligence and morality. I’d previously read about most of the incidents and memos documented in the film, but the photographs (of Dilawar’s “pulverized” legs) and videos (several shot at Abu Ghraib) still have the power to enrage. (ANNIE WAGNER)

SIFF Cinema’s The Rape of Europa is holding over, sort of: It’s jumping to Landmark’s Crest, a discount theater, on Friday.

Jen Graves’s full review can be found here.