The Look of Silence (2015)

Director Joshua Oppenheimer’s latest release was conceived as a companion piece to The Act of Killing, his Academy Award-nominated 2013 documentary. But this more reflective and sobering investigation into the repercussions of the mid-1960s mass killings in Indonesia is a far superior film in that it eliminates the ironic distance of the previous film’s scenes of theatrical staging by allowing a representative of one of the victims to have a voice. Read the full review here.