Orwell: 2+2=5: writer George Orwell’s most famous novels, both political allegories, are so relevant in today’s landscape that one wonders if his books, particularly Nineteen Eighty-Four, are not the blueprint being used by today’s strongmen and tyrant-wannabes. Raoul Peck’s documentary about him uses his writing, beautifully read by Damian Lewis, and it shows how he feared and foreshadowed today in his work and personal writings. Editor Alexandra Strauss mixes footage from current events, images from the writer’s life, excerpts from films based on his work, interviews, and more. Much more. If anything, the documentary has too many dots to connect. It can be exhausting and disheartening, but it also offers what may or may not be a way out of this mess. Authoritarianism is not healthy, and Peck knows it; he may be mostly preaching to the converted, but even minor gains in the post-truth war are welcome.