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Written by Vickie January 20, 2012
Red Tails is blessed with some fantastically realized aerial dogfights that manage to save what would otherwise be a flat, uninteresting WWII drama unworthy of its subject matter.
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Written by Vickie December 23, 2011
Despite an undeniably moving core story, I noticed one key problem with Steven Spielberg’s big-screen adaptation of the award-winning stage production: not enough horse.
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Written by Linda November 27, 2011
Incendies offers a devastating story of a modern country torn apart by religion, so you may find yourself surprised that the country is fictional.
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Written by Linda August 06, 2011
Dominic Cooper gives his all (twice!) playing an Iraqi soldier and (quite literally) his evil twin, who happens to be Uday Hussein, son of Saddam.
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Written by Linda July 28, 2011
If I were to take an editor's scissors, I'd completely chop out the modern framing of Sarah's Key, leaving an excellent and extremely moving Holocaust drama.
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Written by Linda July 05, 2011
A Norwegian resistance fighter finally gets his due recognition in this big budget, engaging WWII thriller.
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Written by Jennifer June 14, 2011
There's no escaping the human element in this film, making the atrocities of war all the more awful.
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Written by Linda May 09, 2011
Ravaged by critics at the time, How I Won the War is by no means a wretched film. It is a big rambly and slapsticky, with that sort of late-60s...
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Written by Vickie October 20, 2010
Jake Gyllenhaal tears up the screen and guns for an Oscar as Marine sniper Anthony Swofford in this cinematic dramedy based on Swofford’s book about his real-life experiences during the...
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Written by Tim September 30, 2010
If you are in the position of having to go to Iraq because you need the money: Watch. Your. Butt! It turns out that maybe Paul Conroy should have stayed...
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