Denial reviewed by Mark Kermode

[@calebw3353]

I knew reading the comments for this film would be a bad idea

[@suadabeslagic2871]

Unfortunately, the Nazi scum crawl out of the woodwork on videos like this.

[@joebrennan230]

I'm obviously naive I had no idea how cancerous it would be

[@kenpudsey6435]

Caleb W -yeah,me as well.

[@kenpudsey6435]

Suada Bešlagić -yes its inevitable isn't it!

[@5Mariner]

David Cole is a high school drop out with no education. He's the least credible source to quote. All he did was repeat the already debunked allegations of Fred Leuchter. It is good for a laugh though (just because its ridiculous).

[@clarkewi]

My Jewish neighbors in Long Island escaped Germany in the 30's. When I met this couple in the 1950's they were already elderly. He was a phD chemist, professor and WW1 veteran. They lost everything and most of their families. Nobody can tell me there was no Holocaust.

[@brandonsamano7428]

Doubtful

[@cliffedward]

Brit movies are sooo good. Even the bad ones. The actors so underplay their roles which seems to make them more powerful. I can imagine if this movie had been made in the US. There would be screaming,yelling and the usual histrionics. Some have said that Rachel Weisz was miscast. I tend to think she wasn't. I think it was the fact that she played an American among other's subdued performances. She came across as a loud mouthed pushy American. I did find her accent a little forced though.

[@nifralo2752]

As in the woman from the Brenden Fraser Mummy?

[@andyg9835]

I don't normally like court case films, as I tend to find them tedious and boring, but for me, 'Denial' cut through that and produced good quality drama. It boasts an intelligent and tight script that is admirably played out. Just like the legal professionals portrayed, the film doesn't rely on sentiment or overt emotion, but is clinical in its denouncement of a smiling monster. Worth checking out. 3/5

[@fraukeschmidt8364]

I love court dramas, so that sounds promising. Thanks for your comments. :D

[@ricky6608]

One of the more realistic courtroom movies, without the over dramatic speaking from counsel which would probably get you laughed at in real life

[@piscesman74]

"David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism." - Christopher Hitchens

[@ssl1506]

LOL Hitchens again proves that once you become drinking buddies with a holocaust denier, one loses all sense of perspective. Hitchens simply latched onto the Irving issue so that he could flog his own writing for Vanity Fair. Nice way to take the bait there.

[@RagggedTrouseredPhilanthropist]

@@ssl1506 On the contrary, Irving was once a respected and groundbreaking historian before he went down the rabbit hole. Maybe he was always a Nazi, but it wasn't always so clear. His early work was well received, which is what Hitchens was referring to.

[@ssl1506]

@@RagggedTrouseredPhilanthropist sorry. Far from it. Read the criticism on irving's early work. And hitchens was definitely not making that distinction in his vanity fair price and subsequent statements and interviews to justify his position at the time. With all due respect, you need to do a bit more research.

[@ssl1506]

@@RagggedTrouseredPhilanthropist and hitchens point actually had little to do with Irving's book in question - hitchens merely was justify his own stance by trying to wrongly elevate irving's statue. Hitchens got his nose out of joint because he believed that st martins should have followed through on the book deal they cut with irving. It's funny how when blinded by friendship someone as astute as hitchens would take the stand that a publisher working in the free market should leave the free market once they make a decision hitchens didn't like. And I like a lot of hitchens work. Unfortunately with all things irving, he lost the plot.

[@chrispalmer7893]

@@ssl1506 Not just Irving. Much as I love a lot of what Hitch did and said, he lost the plot politically after 9/11 to the point where he became buddies with people like Paul Wolfowitz who for the most of his life he'd have rightly railed against. He was absolutely confident that the war in Iraq was justified morally (which is highly debatable) and legally (which you'd find few lawyers to confirm these days), and that history would judge it as a triumph of US foreign policy. I do wonder what would have happened had he lived to see the Trump administration - just as he said if he were writing in the 1930s he'd have focused on Catholocism as the greatest threat to society, and in the 2000s he focused on Islam, maybe he'd have shifted his focus again after 2016 and worried more about Christian Nationalism.

[@Albatross-365]

Never wanted to punch someone so hard. Timothy Spall is wonderfully odious

[@WolfGratz]

Well yes - but the problem is that the legal team are obviously right from the start and that although it was understandable for Lipstadt to have problems grasping a foreign legal system both this and the far odder failure to fully grasp the importance of interpretation of source material (which is something of a handicap for a historian) went on and on as the character ploughed forward making the same objections over and over again in a frankly increasingly irritating manner. I don't blame Weisz for that cos it's the way the role was written - and may well reflect Lipstadt's actual behaviour given David Hare based his screenplay on her book. So although the theme is obviously important and the performances excellent there were times when the combination of Hare and Lipstadt left me feeling both harangued and exasperated.

[@katashworth41]

I just rewatched this, worryingly prescient.

[@SandyQueue]

I saw this movie prior to the holidays in the US. I think my hopes were too high, given the amazing cast. It was Rachael Weisz and her accent that hurt the experience just a bit. A little slow as well, but overall a good movie.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

I wish they had found actors who looked more like the actual people, but otherwise it was a great movie.

[@captainbossman1016]

Well they did get the look of professor Robert Jan Van Pelt kinda right so that's something

[@taliaprice1909]

I am surprised Rachel Weisz did not get nominated for this. Maybe a BAFTA? Rachel is an excellent actress. I was very impressed with this film.

[@meanstavrakas1044]

And just who controls the kosher nominating process? There aren't White!

[@MrKC23]

Excellent film

[@lucasbookfield4000]

This ought to be mandatory viewing in UK schools.

[@onegathers]

Then read the mass of historical evidence, if you trusteth the BBC not, to realise that there existed a Nazi policy of genocide.

[@bigol9223]

It has been for over 70 years.

[@christinefougere1444]

I wonder if he could speak any faster, LOL. I didn't understand a word, had to slow it down.

[@GabrielV65]

I've seen Irving speak just as fast in videos

[@SandraSmith-vb5pf]

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[@stevehughes1510]

A great film, well done as portrayed by the actors, riveting....... the truth and terrible historical event remains.

[@petermachiela5441]

Getting called a nazi but saying palestina and hamas are victims 😂