In the crowded landscape of early 2000s cinema, Norman Jewison’s *The Statement* arrived not with a bang but with a whimper—a fittingly muted reception for what would prove to be the Canadian director’s final film. Based on Brian Moore’s eponymous 1995 novel and adapted by esteemed Holocaust dramatist Ronald Harwood, this tale of a Nazi collaborator’s decades-long evasion of justice promised much but delivered disap…