‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ is horror in splendid color, but is it enough?
The latest cinematic telling of the classic story succeeds in conveying the futility of world war, even if we are about to unlearn that lesson.
The latest cinematic telling of the classic story succeeds in conveying the futility of world war, even if we are about to unlearn that lesson.
The film fails to make the broader strategic critique: that states that are in no position to fight, shouldn’t — or risk losing it all.