Review: 'Navalny' gives a brave Russian dissident his taut, suspenseful close-up
The smoking gun moment in the sensationally gripping new documentary "Navalny" is something to see. We are deep in the investigative weeds with Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, and Christo Grozev, the Bulgarian journalist investigating the August 2020 poisoning that nearly ended Navalny's life. By this point in the film, they've already amassed considerable evidence that the assassination attempt was ordered by the Kremlin, but that still doesn't prepare you for the electrifying sequence in which Navalny starts calling up the men who executed the plot and confronting them, one by one, with what he knows.
The first few men immediately hang up. But then Navalny — showing some of the smarts and daring that helped make him the public face of anti-Putin resistance — tries a different tack with
