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Alexa Davalos - "Defiance" Movie - Latimes.com Review

Webmaster — 2009-01-01T13:55:03Z

A great story fights its way through thickets of Hollywood banter and sentimentality.
A Russian partisan commander looks dismissively at the Bielski brothers, eyeing tough Zus (Liev Schreiber) and tougher Tuvia (Daniel Craig) and proclaiming, "Jews don't fight."
"These Jews do," comes the prompt reply, and "Defiance," the new film by Edward Zwick, is determined to prove that point.
Though one of the standard clichés of the Holocaust is that Europe's Jews were exterminated without offering (...) - Reviews

Alexa Davalos & Daniel Craig - "Defiance" Movie - Nytimes.com Review

Webmaster — 2008-11-03T09:53:37Z

Alexa Davalos, 'Defiance'
THE French-born Alexa Davalos has all she needs to be a major movie star: serious talent, camera chemistry and a blue-eyed, dark-haired beauty with lush yet chiseled features that recall the young Elizabeth Taylor. Yet at 26, she has five years of television roles on her résumé and three less-than-indelible films. Edward Zwick's “Defiance” (Dec. 31), a movie dominated by vivid male performances, may be the break she deserves. (...) - Reviews