This week in movies you missed: It’s pre-Oscars month! Let’s talk about some nominees that never reached our theaters.
That includes all but one of the potential Best Documentaries: The Act of Killing (my review here), Cutie and the Boxer, Dirty Wars and this week’s MYM, The Square. (The fifth nominee, 20 Feet From Stardom, played at the Roxy and Savoy.)
What You Missed
You already know the story, or maybe you half-know it from chaotic footage on CNN and YouTube. In early 2011, activists filled Cairo’s Tahrir Square to protest the military-backed rule of president Hosni Mubarak. He was forced to step down, to be replaced in 2012 by elected Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi, who was in turn ousted last summer after liberal demonstrators protested his abuses of power.
That’s where this documentary from Jehane Noujaim (The Control Room) stops, but the story is, of course, far from over.
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