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'The Brutalist': a brutally long film that falls short

A budget film from last year that won ten Oscar nominations could have genuinely added to the pantheon of Holocaust films but instead feels contrived, crude, and long

Areej Jamal 20 March 2025
Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg in "A Real Pain" Searchlight Pictures

'A Real Pain' shows how grief affects people differently

Culkin's layered Oscar-winning performance as one of two cousins whose grandmother's family went through the Holocaust lets Eisenberg's latest film explore the different ways people process pain

Obaid al-Tamimi 08 March 2025
A scene from the film 'The Zone of Interest' Alamy

The Zone of Interest: A Holocaust film with echoes in today's world

Glazer's Oscar-winning film prompts the question: What would we have done had we lived during the Holocaust and known about it? The genocide in Gaza today reveals frightening answers.

Samer Abou Hawwach 14 March 2024
Participants of a vigil against anti-Semitism gather in front of the Synagogue in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, 16 May 2021. An initiative against anti-Semitism in Berlin has called for the vigil to show solidarity with the Jewish community. On 14 May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned anti-Semitic incidents against synagogues in Germany motivated by the current violence in Israel and Gaza. (EPA/FILIP SINGER)

The Underexplored Dangers of Antisemitism in Europe

The violence that erupted in Gaza during the Israeli military campaign ‘Operation Guardian of the Walls,’ a consequence of escalating tensions in Jerusalem and subsequent rocket attacks by Hamas, was…

Hagar Elnahas 30 July 2021
World leaders listen to a speech by Israel's President Reuven Rivlin during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum on January 23, 2020 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Getty)

Understanding the Holocaust in its Totality

Their names and numbers were Ismail (R9954) and Nasreddin (R9955), Mohammed (R9959) and Hassan (R9965). They were Soviet prisoners of war, captured on the eastern front. In late February and…

Robert Satloff   25 January 2020

Understanding the Holocaust in its Totality

Their names and numbers were Ismail (R9954) and Nasreddin (R9955), Mohammed (R9959) and Hassan (R9965). They were Soviet prisoners of war, captured on the eastern front. In late February and early…

Robert Satloff   25 January 2020
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