The riveting HBO Max documentary Navalny easily deserves an Oscar win

Before it found a streaming home on HBO Max, filmmaker Daniel Roher's powerful new documentary about Russian dissident Alexei Navalny enjoyed a brief theatrical run last spring -- which is when I discovered the film by chance, and did something I've never done before.

The movie (titled, simply, Navalny) floored me so much on the night I saw it, that I went back to the same theater again to see it one more time the very next night. It's that riveting of a film -- and, needless to say, I'm not surprised at all that it picked up an Oscar nod in the documentaries category as part of the reveal on Tuesday of the overall list of nominees for the 95th Academy Awards.

HBO's streamer was already jam-packed with a ton of compelling documentary titles, but the Oscar nomination is now one more reason to check out Navalny if you haven't already.

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