Not Rated| 1h 28min | Drama, War | 1957 “Full Metal Jacket” (1987) is a modern-day war classic by all accounts. It covers the Vietnam War: Everything from the stressful weeks that men spent in boot camp, all the way to the brutal carnage during the soldiers’ climactic street and jungle battles. But it wasn’t director Stanley Kubrick’s only war-movie masterpiece. There is also one of his earliest works, 1957’s “Paths of Glory.” The film is set in 1916, right in the middle of the World War I (1914–1918). Germany has attacked France, and after grueling trench warfare on the Western Front, the two world powers have settled into an uneasy stalemate where successes are measured in hundreds of yards. This stalemate doesn’t sit well with the French army’s general staff. They want to break through the impasse, impose their will upon the Germans, and kick them out of their …