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American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally

2021

Michael Polish

Meadow Williams, Thomas Kretschmann, Al Pacino, Mitch Pileggi ...

5.0

281

Drama An American woman named Mildred Gillars broadcast Nazi propaganda during World War II. She was dubbed Axis Sally by the American GIs who simultaneously loved and hated her. The story plunges the viewer into the dark underbelly of the Third Reich's hate-filled propaganda machine, Sally's eventual capture, and subsequent trial for treason in Washington D.C. after the war.

	Author	Review
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"Clumsy, campy and kitsch, but also deadeningly dull for long stretches (...) It’s just so badly done"	NEG
United States	Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"It’s a potentially fascinating story, but this ambitious film (...) is hindered by a middling script (...) and an underwhelming title turn by Meadow Williams"	NEG
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"This is a plodding and ultimately infuriatingly noncommittal movie."	NEG
United States	Nell Minow rogerebert.com	"Each shot is meticulously framed (...) The movie's characters are less compelling, however, and the film never deeply engages the issues of consent, culpability, and justice it asks us to consider (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"[It] looks so flimsy that even the courtroom where it takes place seems like a Zoom background"	NEG

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