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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Hamish MacBain

Occupied City review: Steve McQueen's ambitious look at Nazi-occupied Amsterdam is important, but tough going

So a week on from Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest, aimed perhaps at a demographic who found Oppenheimer and Killers Of The Flower Moon a little brief and throwaway and trashy, comes Steve McQueen with a serious hold-my-beer-if-you-think-you’re-a-serious-director moment. Well, a bit more than a moment.

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