Dirty Wars

MUST SEE: Richard Rowley's Dirty Wars (US, 2013) - Filed from the frontlines of the war on terror, documentarian Richard Rowley's astonishingly hard-hitting "Dirty Wars" renders the investigative work of journalist Jeremy Scahill in the form of a '70s-style conspiracy thriller. A reporter for the Nation, Scahill follows a blood-strewn trail from a remote corner of Afghanistan, where covert night raids have claimed the lives of innocents, to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), a shadowy outfit empowered by the current White House to assassinate those on an ever-expanding "kill list," including at least one American. This jaw-dropping, persuasively researched pic has the power to pry open government lockboxes. 2013SUN. RATING: 8