Love During Wartime: Allied

AlliedDirected by Robert ZemeckisOpens November 23
In the sublime prelude of Robert Zemeckis’s WWII romantic thriller a parachutist comes gliding into the North African desert circa 1942, and it’s not long before he’s revealed to be Brad Pitt. Call it “The Movie Star Who Fell to Earth,” though what is a luminous man without an equally luminous woman by his side? A quick trip to the big city (Casablanca, no less) resolves that matter, as Pitt’s Bogart-esque Ma