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Based on a true story about Jewish outlaws who fought the Nazis in the forests of Poland, Edward Zwick's Defiance stars Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber as the leaders of the renegade chosen people. Despite the stellar casting, Nathan Rabin's review in the Onion seems indicative of a general critical disdain for the film: "Defiance groans under the weight of its deadly earnestness: it's handsomely mounted yet strangely inert. There are lots of movies about Jews suffering, dying, and surviving in Europe during World War II, but precious few about Jews fighting back. So why does everything in Defiance feel so doggedly familiar?"
Blame his weekend's paltry crop of new movies on the studios' strategy of dropping their last Oscar hopes just before the New Year, which is when prestige pics like Benjamin Button and Revolutionary Road debuted. Those releases will no doubt eclipse this week's meager options, but let's try to keep up appearances, shall we? Excelsior!
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"The single most unconvincing death-camp scene I have encountered in a film" is added to my 2009 list of slams, right after, "I don't go to your job and knock the dicks out of your mouth."
I didn't know James Bond was Jewish.
He is, but he only plays tough Jews, the ones who carry machine guns like in Defiance and Munich, not the kind that do your taxes.
Line blatantly cribbed from Jon Stewart