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Defiance (Paramount, $19.99 for DVD, $29.99 for Blu-ray) - Ricky Gervais might have joked at the Golden Globes that Holocaust movies are Oscar gold, but it didn't turn out that way for "Defiance." The movie has all the hallmarks of an award-winning film: It's based on a true story, centered on the Holocaust, directed by an Oscar winner and stars a trio of formidably talented men. Yet "Defiance" garnered only a single Oscar nod, for the James Newton Howard score, which is beautifully anchored by violinist Joshua Bell.
It's not that "Defiance" was a bad movie - it just wasn't a great one. The film is simply a conventional action drama, well-executed but neither thought-provoking nor emotionally cathartic.See the full content of this document
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Daniel Craig (the current James Bond), Liev Schreiber ("X-Men Origins: Wolverine") and Jamie Bell ("Billy Elliot") play the real- life Bielski brothers, a family of farmers who helped save many more than 1,000 of their fellow Jews. "Jews don't fight," a Russian commander says dismissively. "These Jews do," Mr. Craig's character replies. From their hidden-in-a-forest base in what was then Poland and is n...
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