“A tenderhearted series of incarceration horror stories”
-Ned Martel, The New York Times, September 3, 2004

“A beautiful, powerful, and moving interrogation that raises troubling questions about Attorney General John Ashcroft's post-attack roundup”
-Ward Harkavy, The Village Voice, August 30, 2004

“Given the detainees' plight and the immigrant policies of Attorney General John Ashcroft (seen several times, justifying injustice), we, the audience, have become the court of last resort.”
-John Anderson, New York Newsday, September 3, 2004

“After more than half an hour of listening to people's bewilderment and outrage and sense of betrayal (so many insist that they came to America to be free), after watching these witnesses break down in tears or hunch into themselves or lift their faces as if pleading with an unseen judge, I lost my breath.”
-Stuart Klawans, The Nation, June 21, 2004

“The chronicle by Alison Maclean and Tobias Perse is the most potent documentary in this year’s eclectc mix of narratives and nonfiction at the “Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.”
-Darren D’Addario, Time Out New York, June 10-17, 2004

“Human dimension is what makes Persons of Interest so compelling.”
- Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, January 23, 2004