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Michael Polish, director and co-writer of "American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally" seems more interested in the films look than its story or characters. Each shot is meticulously framed, with striking, noir-ish lighting to emphasize the nightmarish settings of Nazi Germany and American prison cells. The movies characters are less compelling, however, and the film never deeply engages the issues of consent, culpability, and justice it asks us to consider. "American Traitor" is based on the...