Top 10 Movies: Political
The highest-graded political movies we have reviewed, best first.
HamiltonA near ideal record of a stage phenomenon, the original Broadway cast at full strength, filmed with more intelligence than most stage captures.Read the review
One Battle After AnotherAnderson's funniest and most propulsive film, a paranoid chase picture with a burnt out revolutionary at the center of it.
La HaineA day in the banlieue shot like a countdown, as funny as it is furious, and three decades on it has not dated at all.
Jai BhimA courtroom drama with a star as the saviour, but Lijomol Jose and K. Manikandan make sure the Irula family at its centre is never a prop.
The Best of YouthSix hours, thirty-seven years and two brothers: Giordana makes postwar Italian history feel like family news, and it never drags.
The Battle of AlgiersPontecorvo shoots an insurgency like a newsreel crew that got lucky, and refuses to tell you who deserves to win.
Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonCapra's civics lesson is corn with a knife in it, and James Stewart's hoarse, exhausted filibuster is the performance that made him a star.
The Great DictatorChaplin's first talkie mocks Hitler to his face while America was still neutral, and its closing speech is both its bravest moment and its weakest.
Modern TimesChaplin's goodbye to the Tramp is a loose string of set pieces, and the best of them are as precise as the machines they mock.
The Ides of MarchA campaign thriller with a first rate cast that settles for a sex scandal when it promised an argument about power.
