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Review: Ordinary people struggle for extraordinary justice in 'Argentina, 1985'

Ricardo Darín, left, and Peter Lanzani star as prosecutors attempting to bring military leaders responsible for crimes against humanity to justice in“ Argentina, 1985.”.

Films about important historical moments are often marked by a heavy solemnity, a sometimes suffocating respectfulness that can make one forget that these events involved real people, human beings with passions and foibles. This is especially common when the subject matter is as dreadful as the 1970s-1980s military dictatorship in Argentina and its practice of "disappearing" — kidnapping, torturing, raping and killing

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