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Award-winning documentarian Joe Berlinger (Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) also drops the brain, er, ball with GrayMatter, which looks at the awful mutilations, murders and postmortem research of kids deemed inferior by Austria's Nazis. The filmmaker makes the fatal flaw of inserting too much Joe Berlinger into the film, narrating the story and showing himself among the journalists seeking answers. If he'd stayed behind the camera where he belongs, he'd have sharpened the focus on a story that was compelling before he touched down in Austria.

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