Night Moves (2013)
The film has its roots in the 1970s political paranoia wave (See my essay on Conspiracy Films”).
Unlike most climate-crisis films, it’s a probe into the urgency for action weighed against the costs of a radicalized response.
The film’s complex ideological dialectic makes it a good companion piece to last year’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline.
The nocturnal sequence in which eco-warriors (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard) carry out the mission builds much suspense before pivoting to reflective distance by registering the explosion only as noise.
Reichardt, one of few genuinely regional indie filmmakers, shows great understanding of and appreciation for the Pacific Northwest.






