It might be challenging for some viewers to take activists seriously when they are speaking in tongues. But that is exactly what Petra Costa does in her edgy yet empathetic documentary ‘Apocalypse in the Tropics.’ Overlapping somewhat with the events chronicled in 2019’s ‘The Edge of Democracy,’ her epic account of Brazil’s recent whipsawing political battles, this film takes a step back from the action to investigate how the nation’s governance devolved into a near-permanent state of crisis.

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If you follow US politics nowadays, you know that watching the news is almost as terrifying as the scariest horror film. The nation is divided. Corruption runs rampant. And it would appear that there’s really no end in sight. In the new documentary, “The Edge of Democracy,” filmmaker Petra Costa shines a light on her home country of Brazil and its own political turmoil, which may prove to be a promise of what is yet to come in America.

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