"The Bafta nominations list underscores the enormous award-season love being felt for Ryan Coogler's Sinners, his subversive vampire riff on America's black experience though it isn't making history in quite the same way as it is at the Oscars, having 13 Bafta nominations, one behind Paul Thomas Anderson's league-leader One Battle After Another with 14. Bafta film awards 2026: full list of nominations"
"The grotesquely trigger-happy immigration officers of ICE are shooting people dead on US streets and this ugly fiasco is giving us a horribly familiar-looking new figure. ICE's Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, achieving mayfly media stardom at the very moment that he is effectively relieved of his command in Minnesota, has a worryingly familiar buzzcut, sneer and swagger, and of course, like all Maga placemen and apparatchiks, he is submissive to the leader."
"He has a distinct echo of Sean Penn's jarhead military tough-guy in One Battle After Another, who is tragicomically flattered when a masonic cabal of Wasp leaders invite him to join their club. As for cinema's other intersections with the headlines, there are Bafta nominations in the non-English anguage section for Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident, about Iranian theocratic tyranny, and Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice of Hind Rajab, about the little girl in Gaza killed by the IDF."
Ryan Coogler's Sinners received 13 BAFTA nominations, one fewer than Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, which leads with 14. Anderson's film is described as an epic antifa parable inspired by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio as a dishevelled ex-revolutionary and Sean Penn as brutal honcho Colonel Lockjaw. Contemporary US political violence and immigration enforcement surface in cinematic portrayals, with ICE officers depicted as shooting people and Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino framed as a familiar authoritarian figure. BAFTA's non-English category includes films addressing Iranian theocratic tyranny, a Gaza child killed by the IDF, and a 1970s Brazilian dissident pursued by authorities.
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