The global lack of knowledge that’s resulted from Turkey’s denial campaign is more amnesia than ignorance.
The Promise simply turns this historical tragedy into mere background noise for a flimsy romantic triangle.
This Blu-ray continues Criterion’s marvelous minting and contextualization of beloved Columbia classics.
In years past, we’ve written off this category’s most obvious UNICEF candidates by virtue of their lack of any value outside of insistent efficacy.
Director Terry George should be mentioned as derisively as Paul Haggis by this point.
Fans of the film won’t want to miss the opportunity to listen to the real-life subject of the film on the disc’s commentary track.
The film reduces the atrocities committed in the African country to the stuff of a rote suspense thriller.
Here, the Holocaust is a bleeding-heart’s stage for lynching trials, spelling bees, and ironic twists of fate.