Errol Morris’s documentary about Abu Ghraib is startling, not
because of the now infamous images (though they have not lost their
capacity to startle), but because Morris is sincerely interested in the people who took them. Framed by Sabrina Harman’s increasingly
uneasy letters home to her lesbian partner, Standard
Operating Procedure seeks answers to questions that are usually
purely rhetorical: Who would do such a thing to another human being?
And why would you want to photograph it? (See movie times..) ANNIE WAGNER

Annie Wagner is The Stranger's former film editor. She was born and raised in Capitol Hill, but has since lived in such far-flung locales as Phoenix, AZ, Charlottesville, VA, and Wedgwood. After graduating...