Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
Spike Lee's WWII drama about the Buffalo Soldiers offers a genuinely underexplored historical perspective and some powerful sequences, but the film is overlong and narratively unwieldy, with a somewhat muddled ending that tries to juggle too many threads. The acting is solid across the board without being exceptional, and the Italian countryside is captured competently if not memorably. The subject matter—Black American soldiers fighting for a country that denied them equal rights—gives it thematic weight and distinctiveness, but the execution doesn't fully live up to the premise, particularly in its resolution.