Harvey Weinstein continues to pan for Holocaust gold with this fact-fueled, remedially-chronicled — vibrant colors = present day/achromatic tones = flashback — extermination of an otherwise fascinating historical footnote. With Streisand and Rogen unavailable, Helen Mirren assumes the role of the feisty octogenarian who, along with her young lawyer (mayo-man Ryan Reynolds, unconvincingly going full-Jew), sues the Austrian government to reclaim the titular masterpiece stolen from her family by the Nazis. Cute and cuddly tele-fare, with just enough snippets of Third Reich realism to remind audiences caught napping what a bad thing this Holocaust business was. The fact that it’s being released in April, and not November with a hot air-blowing Oscar campaign behind it, proves how little faith The Weinstein Company has in the project. Never again, Harvey. Never again sentimentalize the mass annihilation of 13 million souls! See the painting, skip the movie. Better still, track down a copy of The Rape of Europa. Simon Curtis directs. Barely. (2015) — Scott Marks
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