American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally

Whatever Williams spent on the front-row seat she may or may not have bought herself here, we can only hope it was more worth it for her than it will be for anyone else.

Period re-creation is decent (the interiors-heavy film was shot entirely in Puerto Rico), Polish effectively peppers in bits of archival footage, and the story is often involving despite its missteps.

The film never deeply engages the issues of consent, culpability, and justice it asks us to consider.

Michael Polish's post-WWII courtroom drama is a must for Al Pacino completists.

Clumsy, campy and kitsch, but also deadeningly dull for long stretches...

If Mildred Gillars has a story worth telling in a feature film, this isn't it.

This drama is a highly stylized, noir-ish production that's polished to the point of being stiff... Luckily, the story itself is compelling enough to hold viewers' interest.

[Star Melody] Williams [is] a B-movie queen who apparently watched too many '40s noir thrillers and couldn't decide between playing the damsel in distress or the femme fatale.

"American Traitor" is a hollow cinematic take on the story of the first woman in US history to be convicted of treason.

American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally is uneven at best. Al Pacino is fantastic, but there are stretches where the ensemble cast looks uninspired. The film never grips you in its entirety.