This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The fact that Paths of Glory is less than ninety minutes long absolutely blows my mind. And that isn't to say that this film is boring, but instead that it's so incredibly dense in every way that it feels like it can't possibly be any shorter than at least two hours. Its opening scene alone breaks down warfare in a more complex way than essentially any other war movie I've ever seen has done in its entirety, as Kubrick's pacing…