
Flicks, Daniel Rutledge
Kathryn Bigelow's latest is the most disturbing and difficult watch of 2017, and it might just be the year's most important film too. It's a masterful tour de force in high tension filmmaking, anchored by a home-invasion horror style second act that is absolutely excruciating. The brutal terrorising of black civilians by white cops in a Detroit motel is portrayed with a clinical realism, maximising the oppression without wallowing in the violence. That it all actually happened means you can't find solace in reminding yourself it's only a movie.
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