In Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, what is on the screen is as crucial as what is beyond the frame. Glazer’s German-language masterwork recreates the horrors of Nazi atrocities as they unfolded at Auschwitz by never stepping into the concentration camp. Instead, we are next door, at the beautifully ordered home of the camp’s commandant Rudolf Hoss and his family. At the Hoss residence, there are conversations about the kind of stuff that all families talk about. Across a low-slung wooden fence, the Final Solution is underway, evoked through ominous sound design. The Zone of Interest daringly puts itself...