Rendition

When I mentioned to a friend that I'd just seen "Rendition," a sobering, star-studded new drama about the U.S. practice of whisking suspected terrorists off to other countries where harsher interrogation techniques are allowed, she was surprised. "They've already made a movie about that?" she asked.
In some ways, the existence of this earnestly ambitious and steadily engaging movie really is surprising. While "extraordinary rendition" -- or as some might put it, outsourced torture -- has seen plenty of press in recent years, it doesn't necessarily follow that it so swiftly would have become the topic of a vehicle for all-American actors like Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal.