slate.com – By Sam Adams – Releasing a documentary about the COVID-19 pandemic in October of 2020 feels a little bit like putting out one of those “Hey! Remember the ’90s?” shows in 1995. The first two—Ai Weiwei’s Coronation, which was released by Alamo Drafthouse in late August, and 76 Days, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September—had the benefit, at least for American viewers, of focusing on an environment we’d only seen in passing on the news: the city of Wuhan. But Totally Under Control, which devotes the bulk of its two-hour running time to the first two months of the pandemic in the U.S., risks a worst-case scenario for an investigative documentary, revisiting history that’s too recent to be forgotten without the insight that comes from the passage of time.
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