A sober but not-quite-somber drone drama that ably portrays the complicated moral calculus involved in modern warfare. (General Sherman said that war is cruelty and there is no use trying to reform it, but there persists the sense that we have to try anyway, especially when we’re firing missiles into civilian neighborhoods.) Helen Mirren is a British officer who has been hunting a British terrorist for six years: this is her big chance to capture the enemy. But when the situation escalates, she is forced to negotiate a formidable set of obstacles — er, people — in her quest for permission to use deadly force. Alan Rickman is her military liaison with what seems like a fair portion of the British government, and there are the Yanks to consider as well — it is, after all, an American finger on the remote-control trigger. Barkhad Abdi’s on-the-ground spycraft keeps things from feeling like a filmed play, but there’s nothing like a live video feed to highlight the astonishing distance between predator and prey. (2016) — Matthew Lickona
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