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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 16 Jan 2016

Is there an audience for this? Sadly, yes. There’s nothing wrong with a movie that cheers American heroes…

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By Jackie K. Cooper (1,018) for Huffington Post (170) on 16 Jan 2016

Exciting and patriotic, it's like John Wayne saving the day one more time…

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By John Rico (10) for About.com (1,470) on 15 Jan 2016

It leaves out the politics and lets us, the audience, get a vicarious thrill out transforming the worst day in someone's life into entertainment…

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By Nathanael Hood (305) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 15 Jan 2016

In trying to make his Black Hawk Down, Michael Bay has inadvertently made his own The Green Berets-as envisioned by Donald Trump…

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By Gary Wolcott (857) for Tri-City Herald (818) on 15 Jan 2016

The story of what happened in Benghazi. Not political. Makes no judgments. Safe for liberals. Somewhat disappointing to conservatives…

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By Kevin Carr (1,610) for Fat Guys at the Movies (419) on 15 Jan 2016

Easily Michael Bay's best effort... It's not always an easy movie to watch, but it is certainly one that is worth watching…

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By Annlee Ellingson (847) for L.A. Biz (397) on 15 Jan 2016

Certainly the flashiest in an emerging genre not noted for subtlety…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 15 Jan 2016

13 Hours' is impressive and even wearying without being any sort of gung-ho war movie…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for CraveOnline (813) on 15 Jan 2016

13 Hours is sound and fury, signifying sound and fury, and it's hard to deny that it works…

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By Mike Mcgranaghan (1,821) for Aisle Seat (1,783) on 15 Jan 2016

13 Hours is a rousing action movie that powerfully suggests Hilary Clinton should be exonerated of any wrongdoing in the Benghazi scandal. Or not…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 15 Jan 2016

Bay and his screenwriter, Chuck Hogan, adapting the nonfiction bestseller “13 Hours,” by Mitchell Zuckoff and the members of the Annex…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 15 Jan 2016

Brash, loud, corny and-especially toward the close-cheesy in its use of special effects, [it] represents a sincere effort to be true to the…

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By Matt Patches (283) for Thrillist (209) on 15 Jan 2016

13 Hours is a ripe action movie and a messy portrait of American fighters [...] I know which uncles I'm hiding on Facebook…

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By Matthew Razak (302) for Flixist.com (210) on 15 Jan 2016

Ignoring the politics of the subject matter might be both the worst and best thing the movie does, simultaneously making it work and fail at…

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By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 15 Jan 2016

13 Hours is a visceral, pounding experience that works as a vintage Bay action film even as it skirts the bigger overall picture…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 15 Jan 2016

[Bay] is hell on manly banter amid the explosions (Just another Tuesday night in Benghazi), and also moments carefully calculated to make you…

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By Mark Hughes (145) for Forbes (586) on 15 Jan 2016

[A]n excellent film and Michael Bay's finest achievement…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 15 Jan 2016

Bay's action sequences are as riveting and technically beautiful as ever, but his reductive worldview is also on display…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 15 Jan 2016

13 Hours presents itself as a straightforward war film, but that's the last thing a subject this complex needed…

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By Rebecca Cusey (105) for The Federalist (27) on 15 Jan 2016

Whatever audiences expected from Michael Bay's examination of the Benghazi debacle, it wasn't this insightful war story about hubris on every…

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