“The End” (2024) Review

Director Joshua Oppenheimer had crafted two of the most important documentaries of the 2010s, The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, both films centering on the Indonesian genocide of the 1960s. So, it’s rather surprising that his next film is the apocalyptic musical, The End. If his past films were all about finding the inhumanity of this world, this offbeat narrative is perhaps trying to reestablish a human connection as the world decays. That grand ambition of revealing human nature via...