There are no bad reasons for watching "The Battle of Algiers" -- the legendary epic about terrorism and counterterrorism in colonial Algeria by the Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo and the screenwriter Franco Solinas -- but some may be worse than others.

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When a rerelease combines great artistic power with lasting political interest, celluloid junkies are not the only ones who ought to be excited.