svg]:overflow-visible">Listen to article • 0:00 minHow does cinema frame violence in a violent world? In 2026, amid multiple wars — not to mention state-backed ICE abductions in our very city — the question of how to use cinema to argue against oppression is an urgent one. At this week’s Philadelphia Film Festival, a number of the selections either explicitly or indirectly engage that question, though finding a clear answer remains complicated. In her 1968 essay, “The Movies Make Heroes of Them All,” New York Times film critic Renata Adler contended that truly anti-war films would not contain any graphic images of...