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Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:00 a.m.

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‘St. Anna’ a very poor Spike

Published Friday, October 3, 2008

“Miracle At St. Anna” is a major disappointment. It was exciting to imagine what Spike Lee might do with a big, old-fashioned World War II movie, but he has bitten off much more than he can chew.

Lee, always an inconsistent filmmaker, had been on an upswing recently. “Inside Man” was a lark of a heist flick in love with the multicultural beauty of New York. “When The Levees Broke,” a four-hour documentary on Hurricane Katrina, is, along with “Do The Right Thing,” his best work: scathing, elegiac and indispensable. But “Miracle” lacks both the precision that served Lee so well in...

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