★★★★★ **Echelon (2026)** “War changes people.” It also apparently makes them really interested in stink bombs. There is a particular kind of cinema that cannot be explained through conventional criticism. *Echelon* is that cinema. A film that opens with young Kliment Slavkov fleeing British bombs during the 1991 Biscuit War in the fictional nation of Kolacia, before abruptly cutting to MI6 agent Curt Osborne briefing Nick Baker about him, is not merely a film. It is an event. From the opening moments, *Echelon* establishes itself as a work of staggering geopolitical complexity. …
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