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"Valkyrie"

Tom Cruise leads a cast of actors giving terrible performances in a big-budget Nazi thriller that's just following orders.
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Friday, December 26, 2008 05:44 AM

    @The Needle

    Actually, the story is about Hitler killing Von Stauffenberg, to be precise. I prefer movies like the Anne Frank story with Ben Kingsley as her father (made for TV, but better than most screen films), if you are going to focus on the Nazizeit. Even Schindler's List was a little creepy in terms of honoring participants in the war effort, and only the montage at the end with real life survivors and their descendants made it tolerable, at least to me.

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