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Review: Ben Kingsley is riveting in the uneven historical thriller 'Operation Finale'

"Operation Finale" is well aware - and how could it not be - that it has a singular and significant true story to tell, and it has done its best to do justice to its source.

As directed by Chris Weitz from a script by Matthew Orton, "Operation" details Israel's storied capture of fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann, one of the key architects of the Final Solution, snatched on a Buenos Aires street in 1960 and clandestinely transported out of Argentina for a landmark Israeli trial.

Though the story has been filmed more than

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