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Review: 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk' Offers a Brand New Way to Watch a Movie Posted: 15 Oct 2016 03:30 PM PDT We're on a bit of a war binge right now. The success of recent films like American Sniper and Lone Survivor has paved the way for a new crop of war movies that isolate individual soldier stories, many of them true, and moviegoers are feasting on 'em. In November alone there are two, Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge and Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, while Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk awaits us this July. But it's Billy Lynn -- based on Ben Fountain's acclaimed novel of the same name -- that takes the rare approach of actually acknowledging our obsession with romanticizing war stories through cinema, and when the film tackles those issues head on it's incredibly refreshing and thought-provoking in a way we usually don't... Read More This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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