Woman in Gold (Simon Curtis, 2015)

A fairly accurate retelling of the legal process of 7 years of an Austrian Jew to recover the art stolen from her family by the Nazis, with a panoply of star cameos, Woman in Gold should simply be more than it amounts to: all the dramatic content is ready-made, but flat direction leaves nothing that stays in the mind beyond seeing what an impressive city Vienna is and how daft Helen Mirren's stab at an Austrian accent is, alongside her reveries cast into the past. It doesn't do its theme any service at all. Maybe in the U.S. market it's more emotive to have a ridiculously wealthy family stripped of its property, because it seems like rape to them, but elsewhere in the world and with regard to how the rest of the holocaust occurred, it's pretty shallow.

4/10