Courtesy of the Venice Film Festival.
VERDICT: ORIGINALLY REVIEWED SEPT. 13, 2021 Ukrainian activist Oleh Sentsov directs a hard-boiled gangster tale set in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, whose over-the-top violence is starkly undermotivated.
It’s hard to imagine a character better named than the titular protagonist of Oleh Sentsov’s Rhi