It is shocking new evidence.

Rating: 8/10 (27 March 2008)

With seven Oscar nominations, this film had the unfortunate luck to be competing in a remarkable year for films and won not a single one.
It is a shame because director Jim Sheridan gave us a film that transcends the subject matter and was a delight to watch. The performances by Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, and Pete Postlethwaite were simply incredible, and I even got a minute or two of Saffron Burrows as a London hippie.
What makes this film so much more that a slam at British injustice in the face of terror, is that it is also a portrait of American injustice against Blacks. In the haste to get convictions and convince the public that they are competent, both systems use the same techniques.
What is also common to both systems is the fact that after gross injustice is discovered, the prosecutors and police escape unharmed; while the lives of their victims are ruined forever.