Smashbomb

Search

Search results

All (5000)

Content

Wake Up and Soar: How to Master Your Own Wellbeing

Chris Nelson

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

It's time to take charge of your life and master your own wellbeing, so that you can live your...

Yoga Journal Presents Your Guide to Reflexology: Relieve Pain, Reduce Stress and Bring Balance to Your Life

Yoga Journal

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Discover the healing art of reflexology! The healing art of reflexology uses specific thumb and...

Your Guide to Understanding and Dealing with Type 2 Diabetes: What You Need to Know

Keith Souter

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

There are currently over 3.2 million people with diabetes in the UK, or 6 per cent of the adult...

Lenard (726 KP) rated The Auschwitz Report (2021) in Movies

Jan 27, 2021

The Auschwitz Report (2021)

2021 | Drama, History, International, War

10.0

(1 Ratings)

Movie Rating

People would say there are enough movies about the Holocaust, but this film is different. In 1944, two Slovak Jewish scribes escaped from Auschwitz to safety. They "worked" for the Nazis keeping careful records for the camp. When they met with the Resistance and with the Red Cross, neither organization could believe that the stories they told were true. Meanwhile, back in Auschwitz, the inmates at Barrack 9 withstood months of torture protecting the escapees.
A great movie overall. Two things stood out. One scene at the camp: After spending the night standing outside in the cold, Nazis force the captures to perform their daily work. As the captures walk off, three bodies are seen: one leaning against the wall of the barrack, one in a fetal position on the ground, and the last knelt over, a powerful image of torture. The second happens during the credits when voices from the modern day propagate hate against "the others" showing how the Holocaust continues even as some deny it.

Kudos

Awix (3310 KP) rated Downton Abbey (2019) in Movies

Sep 28, 2019 (Updated Sep 28, 2019)

Downton Abbey (2019)

2019 | Drama, History

8.4

(17 Ratings)

Movie Rating Watch

Big-screen version of the popular costume soap feels like a long episode of a TV costume soap that's ended up in a movie theatre by accident (there's a shock). Daily life at Downton is thrown into uproar by the royal visit; this is mainly just a pretext to hang various low-stakes storylines onto, none of which are especially gripping.

The heritage view of the country is pervasive and unquestioned; the plot mostly concerns a bunch of people utterly determined to be as servile and deferent as they can, no matter the obstacles in their way. You either accept this is normal behaviour and buy into the film's picture-book idea of English life, or you don't, in which case this is not the film for you. Fine performers get very little to do; not much happens overall, to be honest. But if you watched the TV show and have affection for these characters I expect there will be much here you will enjoy. To me it just seemed like a load of under-powered smug monarchist piffle.