directed by Stefano Sollima (130 minutes)

Co-written by a journalist and a crime writer, this is a pacey, brutal, compelling thriller, set in Rome at the time of Berlusconi’s and Pope Benedict’s resignations from office in 2011. In incessant rain, the Tiber threatens to flood, the city’s drains are overflowing, and Roman politics, and business, is swamped in dirty money.