Directed by Peter Berg Lone Survivor is an assault on your senses. It's gritty, romantic, larger than life and frames its central four characters like they are Greek gods. Berg clearly looks up to the marines, and everything he does glorifies their brotherhood, loyalty and sacrifice, in a way that almost fetishizes it. It's a strange … Continue reading Lone Survivor (2013)
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The Finest Hours (2016)
Directed by Craig Gillespie The Finest Hours is an okay but conventional dramatization of the real life rescue of thirty-two workers aboard a sinking oil tanker. It stars Chris Pine doing a possibly accurate but nevertheless distracting Boston accent and Ben Foster doing much the same. In the middle is Casey Affleck playing a more … Continue reading The Finest Hours (2016)
Leave No Trace (2018)
Directed by Debra Granik In Leave No Trace a military veteran and his teenaged daughter live a quiet life in the forest. Soon local law enforcement will track them down and introduce them back to civilization. The daughter, having never been forced to choose between the wild and the civilized world, slowly adapts to the new … Continue reading Leave No Trace (2018)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Directed by James Mangold In 3:10 to Yuma a poor farmer must escort a Jesse James-like criminal across dangerous lands to the 3:10 train to Yuma prison. In doing so the farmer, Dan Evans (Christian Bale), redeems himself in his disappointed son's eyes while criminal Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) bonds with the man and grows apart … Continue reading 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
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