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Audiences might feel they've been taken hostage during certain parts of Sequestro (Kidnapping), but Brazilian helmer Jorge W. Atalla's documentary is ultimately electrifying, both in what it reveals and how it reveals it. .
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Filming over four years and tracking several cases, the Brazilian director Jorge W. Atalla favors a fevered shooting style that's repetitious and disorienting but also effortlessly dramatic.
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The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
The audience it manages to reach will find it as vicerally satisfying as a doc on this subject can be.
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Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Amazingly, the suspenseful Sequestro is a film of a remarkable number of happy endings, a tribute to the well-honed skills and knowledge that the DAS has developed since its founding in 2000.
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Village Voice by Nick Pinkerton
Staying squarely with those victims, what Sequestro does crudely do is communicate the only really sensible platform-an abhorrence of cruelty.
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There are riveting moments, especially in tastefully shot interviews with former captives, who quietly describe their physical and psychological torture.