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By Michael Nordine (446) for Indiewire (3,631) on 20 Jan 2018

Fuglsig’s feature debut is ultimately less an action movie and more a procedural, one in which incremental gains and minimal casualties are…

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By Alan Scherstuhl (679) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Jan 2018

Fuglsig is adept at showing choppers and peaks, caves and campfires, at suggesting the great silence at the roof of the world…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 20 Jan 2018

The movie, based on the terrific book Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton, is only so-so, but it moves at a fair clip and fills in a lot of details…

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By Jacob Knight (117) for Birth.Movies.Death. (774) on 20 Jan 2018

Chris Hemsworth's post-9/11 horse soldier actioner is a bland attempt at revitalizing a producer's brand…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 19 Jan 2018

12 Strong represents a recent war as depicted on screen in an old-fashioned way…

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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 19 Jan 2018

Fuglsig’s job was to document, commemorate, and inspire. He does all three…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 19 Jan 2018

The cumulative effect is draining; you’ll walk out of the theater with the feeling that you, too, have gone to war – and an appreciation…

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By James Verniere (1,180) for Boston Herald (1,433) on 19 Jan 2018

Rousing, if not quite great real-life drama about American Afghan war heroes the Horse Soldiers…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 19 Jan 2018

Unconcerned with context or tonal nuance, it frames itself as an action thriller with a signature moment that could have been lifted from an…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 19 Jan 2018

While it’s gratifying — and occasionally gripping — to see that story told in 12 Strong, the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced film contains…

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By Sara Stewart (700) for New York Post (6,650) on 19 Jan 2018

It’s macho eye-candy of the cheapest kind, endless scenes of gunfire and explosions and rugged, handsome actors running while shooting and yelling…

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By Annlee Ellingson (847) for L.A. Biz (397) on 19 Jan 2018

The film delivers some thrilling action scenes on a massive scale -- with rockets roaring, bullets whizzing and explosions raining down on…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for New England Movies Weekly (716) on 19 Jan 2018

It is less a celebration of American military might than of the tenacity of the men who responded to the horrors of 9/11 by answering their…

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By John Lui (420) for The Straits Times (Singapore) (616) on 19 Jan 2018

Characters are reduced to thumbnails, and there is little of the soul searching found in other war movies, in which men question the need for…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 19 Jan 2018

There's just as much to like here as there is to be frustrated with, the final product a mixed bag of good intentions, decent ideas and missed…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Tribune News Service (1,102) on 19 Jan 2018

Never delves deep enough to examine the larger involvement of the U.S…

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By Michael Fairbanks (50) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 19 Jan 2018

12 Strong is about as basic a film as one could make about something as complex as war…

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By Jim Judy (1,199) for Screen It! (1,437) on 19 Jan 2018

Good but not great. (Full Content Review for Parents - Violence, Profanity, etc. - also Available)…

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By Frank Wilkins (257) for Reel Reviews (165) on 19 Jan 2018

Will never go down as a power player in the pantheon of great war movies…

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By Chris Agar (104) for ScreenRant (1,013) on 19 Jan 2018

12 Strong works as a tribute to the real-life American heroes who lived it, but is an overall generic war film without much substance…

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