Am I the only one who gets Genghis Khan confused with Attila the Hun? They're both military leaders who conquered vast territories hundreds of years ago and are viewed as either brutal killers or heroic commanders, depending on who you ask. (Quick: Which one appears in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure"?) Thank goodness there are films like "Mongol" to set me straight. An Oscar nominee in the foreign-language category, the Kazakhstan-produced biopic is far more ambitious and cinematic than any previous treatment of the Mongol leader's life, and it's as slickly produced as any high-prestige Hollywood biography.

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Grade: B+

Rated R, a lot of gushing and spraying blood, a little sexuality, some mild profanity

2 hrs., 6 min.; Mongolian with subtitles