'Collective': A Tragedy, a Cover-Up, an Expose -- and the Best Documentary of the Year

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'Collective' follows the investigation of a Romanian nightclub fire and a nationwide healthcare scandal—it's a nonfiction procedural that may also be the single best doc of 2020. Our review

and the closest thing to a shining white knight that Nanau’s movie offers up. Despite the newspaper’s seeming focus on football scores, the man and his team have serious investigative chops. Listening to parents mourn the loss of children, he begins to snoop around. Sources tell him that most of the patients were killed by bacterial infections, which leads Tolontan to a warehouse owned by Hexi Pharma. They’re responsible for the disinfectants used in the local burn wards.

That story alone — of how a crack team of muckrakers managed to uncover a major story that their more “serious” media counterparts missed — would have been enough to give viewers a compelling shoe-leather-vérité procedural. And indeed,andwhere tense conversations around conference tables, writers huddled over computers, and editors issuing orders from behind desks makes for compelling drama.

Rather, the malfeasance on display here is a top-down situation, and you soon realize that this isn’t a look at one horrific incident so much as a portrait of metastasizing social rot. A major suspect in the case against Hexi is found dead — possibly a suicide, probably murder. Once you see that a hospital manager, who’s recorded berating his staff, could pass for an extra onyou wonder how, exactly, he got this job.

 

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