Battle of Algiers

Detroit

Crit

Yes, I suppose it's possible that someone more Rust Belt and more urban could have tunneled ever more unerringly into the essence of the 1967 uprising and the Algiers Motel killings than did white southerner Kathryn Bigelow, but if that had happened, I'm not sure I'd have been able to lift myself from the theater seat afterward. This is an absolutely brutal gut blow, its picture of race relations and police attitudes depressingly timely a half-century on.

Oh, and John Boyega, whom I should have but didn't call to your attention when I saw Attack the Block? He's going to have lots more than a Star Wars career.

Trailers

• Death Wish--Didn't see it w/ Bronson, and it looks equally despicable w/ Willis.
• Justice League--Best I can say is that I'm a lot more likely to see it than before Wonder Woman.