Kennedy begins with a man sitting alone in a luxurious Mumbai apartment peeling an apple with a knife. The expertise with which he skins the fruit with his gloved hands indicates that he’s probably good at using said knife for other things. There is a menacing stillness about him. Soon enough, the blood begins to flow. Kennedy is the character study of an insomniac ex-cop who becomes the police commissioner’s personal contract killer. We are told that it is “a…

Killers of the Flower Moon is a superbly performed descent into a nightmarish chapter in the history of American capitalism. Based on David Grann’s true-crime bestseller of the same name, the film is about a brazen and audacious conspiracy by opportunistic White people to rob and murder the Osage people. The film is set in 1920s Oklahoma, where years earlier, the tribe is forced to relocate after relinquishing their homelands. As it turns out, the ground has oil and overnight,…