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Stateside, movies are still lagging behind TV when it comes to tackling current politics. But that’s not the case on the other side of the ocean, where three films so far this week have addressed the European migrant crisis: refugee superhero movie

Jupiter’s Moon, Vanessa Redgrave’s documentary Sea Sorrow and Michael Haneke’s Amour follow-up Happy End. 120 Beats

Per Minute and They each center on LGBTQ issues, while The

Revenant director Alejandro González Iñárritu harrowingly re-creates a U.S.-Mexico border crossing from the perspective of migrants in virtual-reality simulation Carne y Arena. And then there’s Eugene Jarecki’s Promised

Land, which compares America’s rise and fall with Elvis Presley’s.