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Sticking dangerously close to the real-life incident that inspired it, 24 Days (24 Jours: La Verite sur l’affaire Ilan Halimi) offers up a white-knuckle dramatization of the nearly month-long kidnapping and torture of year-old Ilan Halimi, whose traumatic ordeal at the hands of the “Gang of Barbarians” prompted a massive police manhunt and, eventually, a national outcry against anti-Semitism in France.

Adapted by director Alexandre Arcady (“Break of Dawn”) from an account co-written by the victim’s mother, Ruth Halimi, the film is not always subtle in its portrayal of a family ripped apart by tragedy, but remains captivating as a pure procedural that raises questions about the Paris police&#;s handling of such situations, as well as abou