Day Night Day Night

I've got a review of Day Night Day Night, the new low budget indie terror flick, up at NRO today.

Julia Loktev’s debut film, Day Night Day Night, about a female suicide bomber who sets out for Times Square, is the type that critics love to praise for “possessing an artful ambiguity” and “resisting easy answers.” And when they do, they’ll be right, except that Loktev’s film, for all its art-school bravado and post-modern elusiveness, never gets around to asking very tough or very interesting questions. Day Night is concerned only with terrorism at its most quotidian and banal, willing only to explore the personal at the total expense of the political. It may be the first movie about a terrorist that doesn’t care about terrorism.