Style: True lies

At the beginning of the famously bad movie Plan 9 From Outer Space, a self-styled psychic named Criswell asks the audience to consider the outlandish events they are about to see as plausible. For after all, he intones, “Can you prove it didn’t happen?” Mich Jackson’s Denial, a scrupulously sourced fact-based movie about the libel trial of a professor accused of slandering a writer who made a good living minimizing the atrocities committed by the Nazis during World War II by characterizing him as a “Holocaust denier” worries a different question: “Can you prove it did?”

Philip Martin reviews the film, and Dan Lybarger talks to the director and one of the trial’s key witnesses for Friday’s Style section in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Dan’s reviews of Keeping Up With the Joneses and Ouija: Origin of Evil are also on offer, as is our Pier Marchant’s take on Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Plus Karen Martin’s weekly look at the best in home video. It’s the best movie coverage in the country. Can you prove it’s not?

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