The Battle of Stalingrad, reduced ridiculously to a personal "duel" between superstar snipers, a Russian peasant and a German aristocrat. ("It's the essence of the class struggle," opines the editor of a propaganda newsletter.) The telescopic shootouts are meticulously diagrammed, and there are several spectacular shots of aerial attacks, and Bob Hoskins's impersonation of Nikita Khrushchev is authentic at least as far as the bumps on his face. Uniform greeny-bluey-gray photography for frigid grimness. With Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris, and Rachel Weisz; directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. (2001) — Duncan Shepherd
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