ASSASSINS

★★★ OUT 29 JANUARY (DIGITAL) / CERT TBC / 104 MINS Ryan White DIRECTOR Siti Aisyah, Doàn Thi Huong CAST

When two women were arrested in 2017 for the brazen public killing of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s half brother in a Malaysian airport, a host of questions cropped up around them. In this account of the event, the details may be murky, but the filmmaking has a fascinating precision. Director Ryan White (The Keepers, The Case Against 8) doesn’t exactly break the mould in his examination of the circumstances of this Corleone-esque crime, but the facts he uncovers are both outraging and legitimately shocking at times. While never quite ascending to a higher level, the documentary serves as a compelling case study of what North Korean powers are capable of — and a chilling warning about democratic vigilance.