Paul Greengrass's masochistic re-enactment of the costly collision — thirteen dead, fourteen wounded — between outlawed Catholic protest marchers and itchy-fingered English peacekeepers in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1972. The English are not demonized, but you can tell whose side the filmmaker is on, long before the obligatory airing of the U2 anthem, "Sunday Bloody Sunday." (The 1971 John Schlesinger film of that name can be spied on a theater marquee, on an improbable double bill with The Magnificent Seven.) The logistical achievement of restaging the event is no doubt impressive, but the jittery vérité camera and desaturated color are stylistically pretentious. And only about one word in ten is intelligible. The purposefully nonstellar cast includes James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan, Mary Moulds, Carmel McCallion, Tim Pigott-Smith, and Nicholas Farrell. (2002) — Duncan Shepherd
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