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This review was published on December 13, 2024.
On January 23, 2025,September 5was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar.
Tight as a drum and almost nauseatingly suspenseful, Tim FehlbaumsSeptember 5presents an unexpected angle on a familiar event.
This approach is filled with potential pitfalls.
Make it too much of one, however, and you undermine the deadly gravity of the situation.
The film also takes on the quality of a conjuring.
But of course, such a framing can itself reveal the real-time political machinery of a historical event.
Within this heated environment, we see how attitudes and language become codified.
