Pick of the week
Zero Day
A drama starring the one and only Robert De Niro as former president George Mullen. When the US is hit by a cyber-attack that is as perplexing as it is devastating, Mullen is coaxed out of retirement to head the Zero Day commission – a body that will assume an unprecedented degree of arguably unconstitutional power. But is Mullen still physically and psychologically capable of bearing such huge responsibility? The idea of an American politician caring about levels of control creeping in the direction of authoritarianism suddenly seems rather quaint, but maybe that’s the point? De Niro brings real heft and gravitas to the role as a sad-eyed public servant, mourning a lost America.
Netflix, from Thursday 20 February
