Although Paul Greengrass has dealt with real-world violence before, specifically in his movies Bloody Sunday, United 93, and Captain Phillips, his new film, 22 July, is the first time he has explored the aftermath of an attack. You get the sense from the film that Greengrass recognizes we’re in a new moment in history (before today’s screening at TIFF, he noted that we are living in “unprecedented times”) where the far right is on the rise throughout the Western world, and so he needs a different kind of movie to meet this moment. It’s not enough …
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