The guy has an ability to tell a story in purely cinematic terms that comes close to his mentor, Steven Spielberg. Yet somewhere around the time he stopped writing his own movies to become a prestige filmmaker, he lost touch with how to craft characters who resemble humans. His latest movie, ‘Allied’, is a big beautiful throwback to old-timey war melodramas and also completely bereft of relatable human experience. It’s still worth a whirl purely for the craftsmanship and movie nerdery, but don’t expect anything to feel less than larger-than-life.