All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is a Documentary / History movie where reality does most of the heavy lifting, which is often unsettling enough without embellishment. The IMDb crowd seems broadly convinced, which is more than can be said for a lot of modern entertainment. Expect the past turns up once again to remind us that humanity has always been spectacularly complicated. It is not trying to solve cinema, cure society or earn a medal for restraint; it just needs the premise to work, the momentum to hold, and the audience to avoid checking the…