How Biden’s Big Blunder Left the Taliban Stronger Than Ever

The United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan, on August 30, 2021, was one of the first major blunders of Joe Biden’s administration, and the calamitous fallout from that departure is depicted in up-close-and-personal detail by Hollywoodgate.

Egyptian filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at’s illuminating and distressing documentary (July 19, in theaters) offers an insider’s peek at the first year of Taliban rule from the perspective of two of the organization’s leaders. What it paints...