Filmmakers Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe give us unprecedented access to a counterterrorism sting, going on the ground with longtime FBI informant Saeed “Shariff” Torres as he attempts to befriend, and seek evidence against, a Muslim target. Torres is a former Black Panther and ex-convict, and a Muslim himself, who became alienated from friends and family after his cover was blown in a sting against a member of his own community. Though he’d rather be baking cupcakes and spending time with his son, the promise of a paycheck convinces Torres to move to Pittsburgh for one last assignment. There, guided by phone calls and text messages from his FBI handler, a pressing presence always felt yet never seen, Torres’s questionable and potentially coercive tactics are on full display. Halfway through the film, however, Cabral and Sutcliffe radically shift focus, a twist that transforms (T)ERROR into a thrilling game of cat and mouse that speaks to the ethical murkiness of America’s war on terror.  EM