And yet I was nonetheless somewhat taken aback at how blithely apolitical most of 2017's dramatic movies were (as opposed to such documentaries as the climate change treatises «Chasing Coral» and «An Inconvenient Sequel,» or John Ridley's voluminous and
evenhanded «Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982 - 1992,» which
chronicled civil unrest in Los Angeles leading up to the Rodney King verdict).