Arooj Aftab is queen of the night. An intereting interview with Aftab, the first-ever Pakistani artist to win a Grammy Award.

California Burning, beautiful.

Eichmann in Jerusalem, 2006 version (with an introduction by Amos Elon). Heavy, lengthy but nuanced and scholarly coverage of the trials, the moral dilemmas, the defintion of guilt and more. Magisterial and thought provoking, not shying away from asking the hard questions and voicing the hard conclusions. Do read the Epilogue and Postscript. 4.5/5

Collective, 2019 Romanian film that follows a team of journalists as they uncover layers upon layers of shocking corruption in the Romanian national healthcare system. Gritty, shocking and real. 4/5

The Untold Story of SQLite With Richard Hipp. Fascinating.

The Devil’s Best Trick: How the Face of Evil Disappeared. “Part true crime story, part religious and literary history,” I would have preferred if the majority of “true crime story” was just struck off completely and the part on Catemaco, Mexico too. Why Mexico, why not India, why not Japan, why not somewhere in Europe. Came across strongly as intellectual laziness and opportunistic. But the parts that shone through was the ones around “religious and literary history”. 3.5/5