“City of Life and Death” dramatizes the Nanking massacre with a focus on the war mentality that causes otherwise decent people to commit the kinds of horrors that happened in this 1937 tragedy. Chinese writer-director Lu Chuan (“Kekexili, Mountain Patrol”) aims high, both creating an epic-scale remembrance of the Nanking events and adding an ambitious war picture to the catalog. In both arenas, the film is extraordinary. Read More