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“Ballad of a Small Player” is director Edward Berger’s third movie in four years. The first two, “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Conclave” earned 17 Oscar nominations between them, including best picture nods for both.

You’d think that would make “Ballad of a Small Player” something of an event or, at the very least, eagerly anticipated by people who enjoy movies with a straightforward directorial style, keen attention to production and costume design and the kind of booming score that will spike your tinnitus for days after you leave the theater.

And those Berger hallmarks are certainly on display in the new one, a drama about a dandy named Lord Doyle, a down-and-out con

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