In The Forever Prisoner, Alex Gibney incisively aims at the post-9/11 legalization of torture

Which combination of factors led to audiences seemingly ignoring The Report and The Mauritanian, two feature films in as many years about the U.S. government’s rubber-stamping of “enhanced interrogation techniques” (EITs) after September 11, 2001, and the inhumanity, corruption, and nationalism that sprawled forward…