“It’s like a movie.” “It’s on the verge of both horror and romance.” This brief conversation, which we hear early on in Juan Camilo Cruz and Artem Ryzhykov’s grim documentary “A Simple Soldier,” is ...

I have no idea what Tin Soldier is, where it came from, how it was released, or who thought it’d be a good idea. Only rarely is a cinematic experience this confounding, this silly on so many levels, ...