At the time of this writing, I have watched 119 movies from the 2025 release schedule. A lot of those are good, more are bad, and some are great. Well, I had one of the biggest surprises of the year a few days ago when I stumbled upon Sovereign with my Hulu subscription. The movie stars Nick Offerman as Jerry Kane, a real-life sovereign citizen who made news in 2010 for a bloody and deadly shootout with West Memphis police.
When I saw the trailer earlier in the year (and when I saw a clip of a heated courtroom scene on Twitter), I thought this was going to be a run-of-the-mill drama based on a true story that painted its characters with broad strokes and would treat them as caricatures. I was wrong, and this honestly ended up being one of the best films I’ve seen all year.
