JUSTIN KURZEL | USA, CANADA | 2024 | 114 MIN | ENGLISH
It’s 1983, and a string of bank robberies and other attacks has broken out across the Pacific Northwest. FBI agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) suspects that the crimes are related to a white supremacist group. With the assistance of a local deputy (Tye Sheridan), Husk begins an investigation that leads him to a man named Robert Jay Mathews (Nicholas Hoult). Mathews leads a white supremacist organization called The Order, which is assembling an army to fight the United States Army. As Husk closes in on Mathews and his bloodthirsty gang, the specter of explosive violence grows increasingly dire. Chronicling a little-known chapter in American history that would seem outlandish if it weren’t true, director Justin Kurzel expertly combines artfully choreographed shootouts and heists with a highly detailed account of the growth of the white nationalist movement. In perhaps his most lived-in, unglamorous performance to date, Jude Law fully inhabits the role of a broken man motivated by a blazing desire to root out evil. And as the real-life underworld ringleader, Hoult makes Mathews both terrifying and disturbingly charismatic. Though set several decades in the past, The Order still feels sadly relevant in an era when racist ideologies remain a distressingly real presence.
Cast: Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett
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