What I love most about Thunderbolts is how much control it has over its pace: like there’s a metronome perfectly pacing each scene to a particular emotional rhythm. The best evidence of this is the fight choreography. We open with a pretty cool, but not-novel top down shot of Yelena fighting through a hallway of soldiers, as she narrates to us the mundanity of her existence. She’s seen this before and so have we. But, when the need strikes, when…

What’s most impressive about Anatomy of a Fall is how intensely and thoroughly we interrogate ambiguity and the contexts surrounding it only to confront the distance we inherently have from reality and knowing it concretely. Even the title poses questions whose answers must rest aside one another in our minds. Who constructs this anatomy? What fall is being documented? What is my role here? The film opens with an invitation to participate in the interrogation process at didshedoit.com. We are…