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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 19 Oct 2006

Delivers the dramatic goods and compels us to rethink our ideas about heroism in World War II and the exploitation of soldiers as hucksters…

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By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 19 Oct 2006

Viewers expecting a traditional 'war movie' might be surprised…

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By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 19 Oct 2006

Clint Eastwood's Flags of our Fathers is a powerful condemnation of America's tasteless commercialism and the selling of war…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for www.susangranger.com (329) on 19 Oct 2006

Not since Saving Private Ryan has a historical wartime epic packed this kind of powerful emotional wallop…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 19 Oct 2006

Broyles and Haggis redundantly hammer home the same point in scene after scene...while fail[ing] in 132 minutes fully to breathe life into…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for FilmJerk.com (622) on 19 Oct 2006

While not Eastwood at his most authoritative, Flags of our Fathers still resonates beautifully with a portrait of lost souls searching for meaning…

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By Carla Meyer (580) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 19 Oct 2006

As the tortured, heavy-drinking Hayes, Beach (Smoke Signals) is an emotional open wound, and his performance gives the movie its soul…

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By Lisa Kennedy (833) for Denver Post (1,096) on 19 Oct 2006

Some movies and their makers are essential to our understanding of ourselves. Eastwood has become such a director…

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By Daniel M. Kimmel (1,403) for Worcester Telegram & Gazette (604) on 19 Oct 2006

It is unflinching in making us see what it really means to be a 'war hero…

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By David Elliott (754) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 19 Oct 2006

Flags has the guts to put honest quote remarks around 'the good war and 'the greatest generation.' It honors the fathers and the lost sons…

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By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 19 Oct 2006

Flags of Our Fathers is as handsome and gutsy as we want all our soldiers to be…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 19 Oct 2006

Flags of Our Fathers is one of the best movies of the year, one which will be hard to ignore come the Academy Award nominations…

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By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 18 Oct 2006

The insistence on the proliferation of jumping back and forth at will cuts through the heart of these men's stories and leaves us with only…

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By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 18 Oct 2006

Some of the acting is stiffer than the only one not drinking at an Irish Wake, but Flags of our Fathers is a rare historical snapshot that,…

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By Bill Clark (530) for FromTheBalcony (528) on 18 Oct 2006

a thought-provoking take not so much on the battle of Iwo Jima itself, but on the effect a single photo can have on a nation -- both good…

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By Steve Crum (868) for Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers (80) on 18 Oct 2006

A brilliantly layered story about war's heroes and the publicity machine surrounding them...a numbing, somber movie…

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By Alex Markerson (73) for E! Online (838) on 18 Oct 2006

All good war films ought to be antiwar films at heart, and Flags succeeds in this regard, as a necessary civics lesson -- and a testament to…

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By Steve Rhodes (1,488) for Internet Reviews (1,487) on 18 Oct 2006

Cutting back and forth in time, the movie is confusing and slackly paced at first, but it eventually gains its footing…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 18 Oct 2006

Half bitter and harsh, half propagandistic and hagiographic, this is the love child of Saving Private Ryan and Pearl Harbor, too sentimental…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 18 Oct 2006

Flags of Our Fathers is as somber as a funeral and is a muted counterpoint to the tendency to turn war into a celebration of dead heroes and…

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