Much of the film is a fairly standard detective story, but there are at least two stunning sequences (the windmill and everything on the plane at the end.) Movies like this and “Casablanca,” with a strong anti-Isolationish point of view made right before US involvement in WWII, are nothing other than fascinating. (I mean, you gotta get a kick out of any movie where the bad guys are fronting as a pacifist organization.)
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Jordan Hoffman is a New York-based writer and film critic working for The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Thrillist, Times of Israel, NY Daily News and elsewhere.
He is the host of ENGAGE: The Official Star Trek Podcast, a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and challenges you to a game of backgammon.