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.

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.
