Venice Film Review: Mel Gibson's 'Hacksaw Ridge'

Mel Gibson's “Hacksaw Ridge,” which premiered today at the 73rd International Venice Film Festival, is a brutally effective, bristlingly idiosyncratic combat saga -- the true story of a man of peace caught up in the inferno of the Second World War. It’s the first movie Gibson has directed since “Apocalypto,” 10 years ago (a film...