Duck Soup wins its audience over through a level of political satire that speaks universal truth to the state of world governments hidden under the thick veneer of the Marx Brothers’ typical jokes, which ends up being a winning combination.
Navalny etched its name in cinematic history through the sheer entertainment value of its story, which allows the documentary to play more like a thriller than a biographical film to be shown in some contemporary issues class.
Mass is a well-acted, relevant discussion of mass shootings that brings not the politics or the money to the forefront of the discussion, but the humans, engaging the audience with vastly differing portrayals of parents in distress.