a miraculous, radical, soul crushing rewriting and reframing of cinematic language and history and instantly a landmark American masterpiece. intertwines genuinely avant-garde use of archival footage and real history with an emotionally expansive, visually rich drama and revolutionary deployment of images and audio among the most powerful this decade, refuses to allow itself to be boxed in as a gimmick as it lets the tide of memory completely wash over you. horrifying and monumental in equal measure, achieves moments of catharsis that should immediately put Ross onto the radar of anybody looking for cinema’s next great visionary. the best movie of 2024 and one of the major formal achievements of recent memory. breathtaking beyond words