In the old days, when a movie drama had a topical urgency, we would say that it was “ripped from the headlines.” But that phrase is now beyond quaint. Today we’re in the age when a film with topical relevance can feel like it was ripped, torn and bleeding, from reality.
Two of the most high-profile movies of the 2025 fall film festival season powerfully illustrate that trend. “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” a tumultuous political docudrama that was a sensation in Venice (where it was awarded the number-two prize, the Silver Lion), re-creates a war-zone calamity that took place in Gaza on Jan. 29, 2024. “Nuremberg” is ripped
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