Burns believes that the granular details of cerebral inquiry into issues of morality are more than enough to hold our rapt attention. His script is miles from the action blast of his screenplay for The Bourne Ultimatum and the narrative trickery he employed for Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat. Burns impressively does the opposite of showing off. But you also get a film that’s willing to challenge and provoke, and in only his second feature directing assignment (after 2006’s Pu-239), Scott Z. And boy, do you feel the grinding, painstaking effort of the job in every minute of this potent political thriller’s two-hour running time. “The (Torture) Report” - the word torture has been redacted in the title - took Jones and his team six years to complete. This powerful new addition to what’s shaping up to be the year of Adam Driver casts the Marriage Story star in the all-work-no-play role of Daniel Jones, the real-life Senate investigator charged with filing a report on the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on suspected terrorists after September 11th.

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