Resensitized to Mass Shootings: Tower

TowerDirected by Keith MaitlandOpens October 12 at Film Forum
Too often, movies tell us shocking true stories in the comfortingly false ways in which we expect them to be told—even when they ought to be too excruciating for such untroubling dramatic structures. (Consider, for example, almost every Holocaust movie.) Tower stands as a corrective: not, maybe, by itself a game-changer, but at least an example of how we might rethink the clichés in our storytelling—a guide for fil