The World War II drama has been a hearty staple of the film industry's diet for more than 80 years'even as Hollywood has turned away from the kind of meat-and-potatoes offering that the genre represents. And after so many decades, directors somehow still keep finding new narrative nooks and crannies to explore. Take Anthony Maras's latest movie, Pressure, which asks a question that had never occurred to me: Just how stressful was it to be the person tasked with picking the opportune moment for the D-Day landings' Would anyone be shocked to learn that it was, in fact, incredibly stressful' Of course they wouldn't. Indeed, the title works two ways'there's air pressure, and then there's office pressure, and this movie has heavy helpings of both. If that feels a little on the nose, then Pressure may not be for you. But it is the kind of straightforward bit of dad-bait I am always happy to see in a theater; it somehow manages to invest real tension in a story that has been told many...
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