Our cinema has been taken hostage, it seems, by hostage movies and kidnapping dramas. But not the kind where Charles Bronson or Bruce Willis or Liam Neeson must rush in and save the day. This most recent spate of films leaves genre theatrics behind and instead uses the power dynamics of captivity as a jumping-off point for other conversations. Last year’s Venice Film Festival premiered Yorgos Lanthimos’s demented sci-fi-adjacent drama Bugonia and Gus Van Sant’s crime thriller Dead Man’s Wire ,