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Review  "In Darkness" is yet another movie in which Jews escape
death in the Holocaust through the actions of a gentile with a
conscience. They survive because he helps them hide in the
sewers of Lvov; that's bad luck for the audience, which has to
peer for too long into dim, rat-infested shadows and endure
standard melodramatic typecasting.  Is there anyone who still
requires this lesson on the evil of the Nazis and the resilience
of human nature? "Schindler's List" (1993) said everything this
film has to say, and much more. It was better directed, better
written, better acted, and for that matter, more entertaining.
Is that a sacrilege, that I praise a Holocaust movie for being
entertaining? The word