Raoul Peck, film festival regular and documentarian extraordinaire, returns to TIFF’s 50th edition with 2+2=5, an intricate analysis of George Orwell’s most popular works, and a work that is mainly concerned with juxtaposing Orwell’s works against contemporary political and social landscapes. From the very first scene of the film, Peck immediately puts himself into a comfortable and familiar template. A great deal of the time, the picture operates as an archival documentary that borrows clips and scenes from movies like M3gan and Orwell’s various film adaptations—not to mention the numerous amounts of footage that concern political news coverage. As much as it is a film that is genuinely interested in the life/works of George Orwell, it also functions relatively well as a vehicle that is dead-set on observing the contemporary state of (mostly) Western politics.  Operating on an archival formula, Peck utilizes this template to create various off-colour vignettes/bits that mos...