RECOMMENDED: Having just nabbed the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, director Michael Haneke‘s The White Ribbon now begins a victory lap in U.S. theaters that, if all goes according to plan, will see it vying for an Oscar in the same category. Set in a small German village on the eve of World War I, the film centers around a small axis of power — a puritanical pastor, a doctor, and a baron — and how abuses of that power gradually cause the village’s entire structure to unravel while all of the people in the village get, like, all German about it.

ALSO NEW IN THEATERS:Tooth Fairy, starring The Rock as a hockey player who, quite rightly, is accused by Julie Andrews of killing dreams; Legion, that movie with the old lady in the diner who eats brains;and Extraordinary Measures, which signals both the end of Brendan Fraser being cute and the beginning of Harrison Ford‘s search for an On Golden Pond so he can just wrap it up already. This isn’t it.

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This entry was posted on Friday, January 22nd, 2010 at 2:34 pm.