'Transit' review: A refugee's wartime mystery, with a twist
"There aren't any old times," Joseph Cotten says with a grind of boundless optimism in "The Magnificent Ambersons," a movie made during wartime, 1942. "When times are gone, they're not old, they're dead. There aren't any times but new times."
A more threatening embodiment of that idea, of new times that seem like old times, comes to subtly provocative life in "Transit," one of the most intriguing films of the new year. Written and directed by German filmmaker Christian Petzold,
