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’12 Strong’ Review: Pretty Weak

Philip Brown — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:00:59 +0000

‘American Sniper’ wasn’t a film that I was fond of at the time, but its legacy is something that I particularly dislike. Thanks to the success of Clint Eastwood’s rousing “kill all the evil brown people” war parable, Hollywood essentially revived the old-fashioned war propaganda picture. The latest is ’12 Strong’, a military epic that...

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Now Playing: Who Was That Masked Man?

Bryan Kluger — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:00:59 +0000

Director Gore Verbinski borrows heavily from his animated Western ‘Rango’ and some other choice films for his latest mega-budget action adventure, ‘The Lone Ranger’. In what seems to be a project greenlit only because Johnny Depp was willing to get into costume and makeup again, this remake is deeply flawed and way too long. Running...

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Now Playing: ‘Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ Isn’t Exactly Magical

Drew Taylor — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:00:33 +0000

When I went to a press screening of the latest Jerry Bruckheimer/Walt Disney Pictures visual effects extravaganza ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,’ I sat a few seats down from someone who introduced himself as having worked on the locations for the movie. He said that he spent eight months on the production, which shot all around New...

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