Romanian import Collective offers the latest proof that this is a great Oscar season for documentaries.

But then, what’s wrong with genre-blurring experiments?

Then there’sTotally Under Control, which examines not just contemporary America, but the America of this very moment.

Totally Under Control, Dick Johnson Is Dead, Collective

Credit: Neon; Barbara Nitke/Netflix; Magnolia

Oscar-winningIcarusdirector Bryan Fogel returns this Christmas withThe Dissident, digging into the 2018 assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Still other films looked further into the past to illuminate our present.

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