Zero Dark Thirty

The film is suspenseful, dogged, relentless, and determined – amazing considering we already know the ending of this story about the 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden.

"...that the film oversells the efficacy of the enhanced interrogation techniques that for many came to define the Bush..."

Jan. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Taxi to the Dark Side

Alex Gibney's new documentary focuses on the patterns of abuse committed by American armed forces against enemy combatants in Iraq and elsewhere. Instead of bad apples, he finds bad orders.

"...from their superiors in the handling of prisoners and interrogation techniques, were given only the vaguest of outlines, or..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Zen Noir

A hard-boiled detective investigates a murder at a Buddhist monastery.

"...but he soon finds his linear line of hard-talking interrogation stymied at every turn by the opaque deflections and..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Deceiver

"...to a lie detector machine in a darkened police interrogation room is Wayland (Roth), the chief suspect in the..."

April 17, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Truth or Consequences, N.M.

"...spotting elements copped from earlier movies (“Hey! That's the interrogation scene from True Romance with Martin Sheen in the..."

May 30, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Deadly Currents

"...of the film do become chilling: a secret Palestinian interrogation of a suspected traitor in a claustrophobic location, and..."

June 18, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Clearcut

"...director Bugajski is best known for his film The Interrogation, a cause célèbre when it was suppressed by the..."

Sept. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Mortal Thoughts

"...story is probed within the confines of a police interrogation room. Further, Cynthia's testimony is being videotaped, and as..."

April 26, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

When Confessions Prove False

Jonathan Holt told police he'd murdered his wife. But he hadn't killed her, and the cops should have known it.

"...– after numerous interviews and a marathon day of interrogation – Holt confessed to the crime, was charged with..."

April 25, 2014 News Feature by Jordan Smith

A Forced Confession?

Jurors spent much of week three of the yogurt shop murder trial of Michael Scott watching nearly 20 hours of an exhaustive videotaped confession he gave Austin police in September 1999.

"...in September 1999. On the first day of that interrogation, police grilled Scott for nearly 12 hours in a..."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Justice Denied?

Advocates Still Fighting for Lacresha Murray's Freedom

"...The state's position on the interview/interrogation is that at the time of the questioning, Murray..."

Aug. 7, 1998 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Somebody Has to Die

The conviction of Robert Springsteen in the yogurt shop murders leaves many questions unanswered.

"...linking the suspects to the crime; about the APD's interrogation tactics and the validity of the confessions they obtained..."

June 15, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

"...circumstances surrounding Austin Police Department homicide detectives' two-and-a-half hour interrogation of Lacresha five days after the beating death of..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature

Kaitlin Armstrong Defense Team Calls Police Narrative “Misogynistic and Fictitious”

The plot thickens

"...Colin Strick­land, as well as pieces of Armstrong's own interrogation (excerpts available at austinchronicle.com)...."

Aug. 26, 2022 News Feature by Maggie Q. Thompson

The State of Texas vs. Melissa

New documentary spotlight's the Lone Star State's death penalty fetish

"...following the child’s death, including clips from Lucio’s near-seven-hour interrogation and of her children being asked to discuss their..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Movie Review by Sarah Marloff

ARIC Trainings Teach Cops and Informants Junk Science

Police are learning lessons in fear

"...by a group calling itself the Laboratory for Scientific Interrogation, the program promised, for a fee, to turn each..."

Aug. 28, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 5

Our Bill of Rights guarantees are breaking down in state justice systems across the country

"..."played a role in developing the C.I.A.'s detention and interrogation program," and she and her direct superior were responsible..."

July 12, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

The Never-Ending (Crime) Story

Although their case has hit a dead end, prosecutors of the yogurt shop murders say they're determined to find the 'unknown suspect' – and then to retry Michael Scott and Robert Springsteen

"...murders. On Sept. 15, 1999, after five hours of interrogation, he confessed to killing Amy Ayers. "I had finally..."

July 17, 2009 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

News Shorts

"...the yogurt shop murder case: He conducted the 1991 interrogation of Maurice Pierce, which lead to Pierce and co-defendants..."

Sept. 7, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

The Interview

"...schmo is summarily hauled downtown, flung into a dungeonlike interrogation room and grilled repeatedly about an absurdly petty crime..."

April 14, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Naked City

The Texas Supreme Court denies Austin DA's request that it overturn the decision that allowed LaCresha Murray to go home last April, but the DA's office says it make take the case to a third trial.

"...the DA's evidence during both trials was a lengthy interrogation of Murray conducted by Austin Police Department detectives five..."

April 7, 2000 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Kaitlin Armstrong Defense Team: Police "Concocted a Misogynistic and Fictitious Story"

Attorneys seek prompt hearing on motions to quash evidence

"...Colin Strickland, as well as pieces of Armstrong’s own interrogation. (Excerpts included below)..."

Aug. 19, 2022 News Post by Maggie Q. Thompson

Death Watch: A Mother Set to Die

Melissa Lucio says she didn't kill her daughter and half of the Texas House of Representatives agree

"...By the fifth hour of the interrogation, Melissa Lucio had begun to repeat back some of..."

April 8, 2022 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Norwood Trial: Morton Murder at Stake Monday

Judge to determine whether or not to allow testimony of second killing

"...so that the prosecution could show video of Norwood’s interrogation down at APD headquarters. It was there that Gilchrest..."

Sept. 19, 2016 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Naked City

"...51-45 margin, voted last week to ban water-boarding, an interrogation technique dating back to the Spanish Inquisition, which has..."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Feature

Naked City

Jury selection continues in Robert Springsteen's murder trial.

"...and Springsteen had confessed to the killings during police interrogation. But questions about the two confessions are likely to..."

April 27, 2001 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...specifically to responses Murray made to police during her interrogation, when she told police she may have accidentally kicked..."

May 7, 1999 News Feature

DogMan

A thief survives an abusive childhood to forge a soulful connection with canines

"...a life of pain and misery from the police interrogation room: abused, crippled, abandoned, unloved, the constant whipping boy..."

March 29, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Marvels

Lower, lesser, slower, baby

"...but seemingly allows the film to completely avoid any interrogation of the very clear idea of having characters be..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Barbie

The doll that changed the world faces the world she changed in this fizzy meta-comedy

"...going to happen next (a musical number, or an interrogation of the male gaze? Both!) is electric. There is..."

July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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