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The Patriot is the kind of film Hollywood stopped making around the time it started worrying about how America looked to foreign markets. It is unabashedly pro-American, pro-family, and pro-violent-resistance-to-tyranny.…...
The first twenty-five minutes of Saving Private Ryan are among the most important minutes in the history of American cinema. Not because they are the most technically impressive war footage ever shot, though they are that.…...
Hacksaw Ridge is one of the most purely traditional films Hollywood has produced in the last twenty years. It is a story about faith, and it takes that faith seriously in a way that most war films don't dare.…...
Eight days. That is all that separates us from finding out whether the Academy goes with the crowd-pleasing vampire epic or the art-house literary adaptation. Whether Ryan Coogler takes home the gold or Paul Thomas Anderson finally gets his due.…...
