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Midway through Nuremberg, prosecutors play for their Nuremberg trial attendees never-before-seen footage shot at various Nazi concentration camps, and James Vanderbilt’s drama more or less pauses its fictionalized action to gaze in horror, like its characters, at this appalling documentary material. It’s a sequence of overpowering ghastliness, definitively making the proceedings’ case about the necessity of confronting the truth in …

Willem Dafoe brings star wattage to this watchable drama, playing brooding Greek plutocrat and alpha-patriarch Marcos Timoleon, transparently based on Aristotle Onassis: gazing impassively at people through his heavy glasses, doting menacingly on his dependents and given to exercising in the nude in front of the servants. Spanish film-maker Miguel Ángel Jiménez directs and co-writes this adaptation of the novel …

Donald Trump has said that he has deployed nuclear-capable submarines to the “appropriate regions” in response to a threatening tweet by Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev, suggesting that he would be ready to launch a nuclear strike as tensions rise over the war in Ukraine. In a post on Truth Social on Friday, Trump wrote that he had decided to …