The Zone of Interest will wreck you. Jonathan Glazer's movie, which initially premiered in December 2023 and has since been expanding to more areas, is a gut punch, showing how people are willing to turn a blind eye to horrors if it can benefit them, but how they are never truly gone and will haunt you one way or the other. Yet because it is so exquisitely made you will not be able to look away, drawn to the power of the images and message presented on the screen.
To put it simply, The Zone of Interest is one of the best movies of the year. While other movies dealing with dark and/or tough subject matters may be more entertaining (Killers of the Flower Moon) or enthralling to watch unfold (Oppenheimer), it is Glazer's decision to not mine the easy emotional moments and yet make sure the audience never forgets what is really going on that make The Zone of Interest so breathtaking.
