There’s a clear consistent trend in the Best Documentary Feature nominations at the Oscars this year which can broadly be boiled down to “oh, Russia is still invading Ukraine, should probably make a point of looking like we care.” So first, then, is Navalny, a documentary about the titular opposition candidate to Putin over the last few years. The film is effective in establishing context for who he is, what he stands for, before getting into the meat of the assassination attempt in Serbia and the resultant fallout and investigation into exactly what happened. The centrepiece of the film is when, having found the phone numbers of the four agents who were sent to kill him, Navalny decides to give them a call. He tells the first ones “this is Navalny, I was just wondering why you tried to kill me?” They - duh - hang up. For the last guy, he tries a different tack of pretending to be an FSB official and the guy just blabs. And it’s kind of funny, but equally, that guy is definitely dead now. Daniel Roher makes a token effort at challenging his subject on his far right links, but accepts the oddly non-denial denial at face value and moves on. A good primer, all in all, though.