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This European co-production drama, about a literature professor who unwittingly becomes a Nazi stooge in the run up to the Third Reich, doesn’t do much to answer the age-old question of how ordinary individuals can become bound up a collective evil. It doe

The Burning Plain
The programme note for The Burning Plain refers to writer-director Guillermo Arriaga as a “one-man revolution in cinematic storytelling.” If that’s the case, you can start the revolution without me. The Babel screenwriter’s directorial debut (his first aft

Miracle at St. Anna
Working from James McBride’s adaptation of his novel about the travails of four “Buffalo soldiers” — members of the all–“colored” 92nd Infantry Regiment — in WWII Tuscany, Spike Lee mounts his very own war epic with mixed but often exciting results. That s