Schindler's List astounded critics and audiences alike, Steven Spielberg has nothing but praise for another Holocaust film.

But maybe the notion of the Holocaust movie is changing. This year in particular, three films seek to challenge the idea of what it can and should be.

There have been a lot of movies about the Holocaust. “The Zone of Interest,” Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-nominated historical drama, does something novel.

But the Holocaust happened to the Jews, at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators, and its specificity should not be diluted into a general meditation on the banality of evil. The movie ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall has written three columns over the past month about a Holocaust remembrance where a rabbi’s ...

“A Real Pain,” the Holocaust film starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin, is up for two Academy Awards. They have a fan in Columbia, SC.

What definitively broke it, in the late 1970s, was — of all things — an NBC miniseries starring Meryl Streep. Crude, contrived and overblown, “Holocaust” is not a work of art; by today’s ...

The Academy’s tendency to award trophies to Holocaust movies has long been whispered about — and even occasionally joked about by cheeky comedians. In 2009, shortly after Kate Winslet won a ...

Friends tried to warn him off it. The film, which is entirely in German, has long, stagnant shots that would put him to sleep. It’s also a Holocaust movie that focuses on the family of Nazi ...