A day at the spa ends in tragedy for Katja (Diane Kruger) when she returns home to find her husband and young son have been blown to hamburgers by a Nazi-rigged explosive device. (What is the respected grieving period before it’s okay for a widow to start plotting her revenge with a nail-bomb?) For a third of his movie Fatih Akin (Head On, The Edge of Heaven) painstakingly walks us through Katja’s superabundant grieving process — highlighted by an unforgettable botched bathtub suicide. Cocaine gives her the courage to stand up to her in-laws, but all the drugs in the world aren’t enough to keep audiences awake during the drawn-out second act court proceedings that eventually give way to a predictably climactic revenge thriller. Even the agonizingly pitched desperation of Kruger’s performance isn’t enough to prop up the slow pace and visual cliches (Hitchcock’s patented zoom-in/dolly-out dusted off for the reading of the verdict). (2017) — Scott Marks
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