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  • In a stylish mystery, Jodie Foster releases the dybbuk of French Jewish identity

    PJ Grisar|Jan 23, 2026

    Dr. Lilian Steiner isn't really listening. Yes, she hears the thunderous strains of the Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" playing from an upstairs neighbor's apartment above her psychiatry practice in a tony arrondissement of Paris. She is committed to recording the sessions on mini-discs for future reference, even if she has to bug her digital native son to buy replacements on Amazon. But when a patient dies from an apparent suicide, without any of the usual warning signs, she knows she's missing...

  • Movie review: Is 'Nuremberg' the Holocaust movie we need right now?

    Mira Fox PJ Grisar and Olivia Haynie|Nov 28, 2025

    Holocaust movies have become such a genre of their own that it is hard for them to find anything new to say. Yet directors keep trying - perhaps out of a sense of duty, or the assumed prestige of the subject matter - to keep the atrocities front of mind. "Nuremberg," a star-studded new film written and directed by James Vanderbilt (the writer of Zodiac and both installations of the Adam Sandler-Jennifer Anniston hit Murder Mystery), focuses on the trial of Hermann Goering, Hitler's second-in-com...