Occupied City: Steve McQueen’s Original Take of Amsterdam Under the Nazis
Irena’s Vow: A Glimpse of Heroic Holocaust History Even as History Repeats Itself
ReviewJim SlotekIrena’s Vow, TIFF 23, WWII, Nazis, Nazi era Poland, Louise Archambault, Dan Gordon, Sophie Nélisse, Dougray Scott, Maciej Nawrocki
Original-Cin Q&A: One Life Director James Hawes on Capturing a Hero’s Essence
By Bonnie Laufer
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Persian Lessons: Miseducating a Nazi
ReviewJim SlotekPersian Lessons, WWII, Nazis, Vadim Perelman, Ilya Zofin, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Lars Eidinger, Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Farsi, One Thousand and One Nights
88: Would-Be Thriller About Neo-Nazis in U.S. Politics Barely Feels Like Fiction
ReviewJim Slotek88, Political thriller, U.S. politics, Eromose, Brandon Victor Dixon, Naturi Naughton, Orlando Jones, Thomas Sadoski, William Fichtner, Kenneth Choi, Nazis, Neo-Nazism
The Good Traitor: Fact-Based Nazi-Era Drama Should be Dazzling But Lacks Heft
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Good Traitor, Christina Rosendahl, Nazis, World War II, Danish movies, Ulrich Thomsen, Denise Gough, Zoë Tapper, Henry Goodman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Drama, War
The Affair: Europudding in a Lovely Real-Life Terrarium
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Affair, Clae, Julius Sevcik, Hanna Alström, WWII, architecture, Ludwig Mies van de Rohe, Czech Republic, Nazis, Historical drama, Lesbian love story, Carice van Houten, Villa Tugendhat, adaptation, The Glass Room
The Last Vermeer: Fascinating True-Life Story Underserved by Middling Drama
By Karen Gordon
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Last Vermeer, Guy Pearce, Claes Bang, WWII, Nazis, Dan Friedkin, Drama, Vicky Krieps, Forgery
The Secrets We Keep: Post-War Thriller Entertaining Enough… If You Don’t Look Too Closely
Review, PreviewJim SlotekThe Secrets We Keep, Thriller, Nazis, Yuval Adler, Noomi Rapace, Chris Messina, Amy Seimetz, Joel Kinnaman, Hitchcockian, Drama, WWII
