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The Good Traitor: Fact-Based Nazi-Era Drama Should be Dazzling But Lacks Heft

The Good Traitor: Fact-Based Nazi-Era Drama Should be Dazzling But Lacks Heft

By Thom Ernst

Review, PreviewJim SlotekApril 15, 2021The Good Traitor, Christina Rosendahl, Nazis, World War II, Danish movies, Ulrich Thomsen, Denise Gough, Zoë Tapper, Henry Goodman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Drama, War Comments

Red Snow: Impressionistic Displacement Story Timely But Overstuffed

By Liam Lacey

ReviewMarch 12, 2020Red Snow, Marie Clements, Canadian, Tantoo Cardina, Asivak Koostachin, Mozhdah Jamalzadah, Miika Bryce Whiskeyjack, Kane Mahon, Vancouver International Film Festival, Drama, War, Indigenous themed filmsComment

Shock and Awe: Iraq War Newspaper Drama Meanders and Fizzles

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJuly 26, 2018Rob Reiner, Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Newspapers, 9/11, Drama, War

12 Strong: When Superheroes Go to War (Things Blow Up!)

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJanuary 18, 2018War, Action, American, Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, 9/11, Afghanistan, Jerry Bruckheimer

Churchill: Blood, toil, sweat and tedium

By Liam Lacey

ReviewJune 8, 2017History, War, World War II, Drama

Low budget The Wall has high payoff for Aaron Taylor-Johnson

By Jim Slotek

InterviewMay 15, 2017The Wall, Doug Liman, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, War, Netflix, Amazon, Iraq