Game recognizes game: Martin Scorsese once called Jia Zhangke’s body of work “the finest, toughest, most vitally alive work in modern moviemaking.” It’s a high compliment, but Jia’s cinema—not only tough, fine, and vital, but slippery, sophisticated, and ambitious, matching form to function and reach to grasp—measures up. (For those looking to catch up with his work, the Criterion Channel is hosting a well-curated online retrospective this month.) In the similarly scrappy but increasingly