10 Best Movies Of 2023 (So Far)
8. How To Blow Up A Pipeline
Sure to be remembered as one of 2023's most provocative films, How to Blow Up a Pipeline follows a group of eight environmental activists as they plot to blow up an oil pipeline.
What's most striking about Daniel Goldhaber's (Cam) film is its refusal to moralise, offering up an objective, non-judgmental look at these individuals - or, as some might say, terrorists - in the final days before they carry out their plan.
That's sure to make some viewers uncomfortable or even outright angry, but by avoiding excessively taking either side, Goldhaber is able to capture the activists/terrorists in all of their complexity.
The fly-on-the-wall filmmaking - shot in gorgeously intimate, grainy 16mm - combines with a terrific ensemble cast of rising young actors to make this a thriller as genuinely tense as it is thoughtful.
As the real-life climate crisis becomes ever-more urgent in the face of seemingly unstoppable corporate greed, Goldhaber's film asks, "How far is too far?"