Beyond the swelling emotion, there's actually a story!

Guy Pearce saves the sci-fi actioner from being a cinematic death sentence.

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As the fall festival season swings into full gear with the opening of the Toronto Film Festival, Venice humming along and Telluride wrapping, another festival is heading into the home stretch on the Normandy shores here in Deauville, France.

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An unsentimental portrait that examines the horrors faced by Jewish prisoners working inside the Nazi death camps in World War II, and the irrelevance of the conventional concepts of morality under such extreme conditions. A brilliant and thought-provoking film, but definitely not the feel-good hit of the season.