Day of Wrath (2006) wants to defend Jewish endurance but ends up inventing the world’s least self-aware conspiracy theory: a Spain where everyone’s secretly Jewish and the Inquisition was their idea. A pious mess of hypocrisy, history, and candlelit melodrama.
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Day of Wrath: With Friends Like These, Jew Needs Enemies?

Day of Wrath (2006) is pro-Semitic in the most backhanded way possible — the cinematic equivalent of someone saying, “Them kikes are alright with me, I tell you what.” The opening intertitles claim…

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