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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 19 Oct 2006

If the larger vision in Flags is somewhat out of focus, there are many small glimpses and grace notes that show Eastwood's well-developed sense…

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By Moira Macdonald (1,892) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 19 Oct 2006

Once this World War II drama finds its footing -- and much of the film goes by before it does - it's extremely moving…

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By Jack Garner (583) for Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (558) on 19 Oct 2006

It's another example of the admirable and ever-growing complexity of Eastwood's storytelling, and his continuing eagerness to be honest and…

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By Timothy Knight (332) for Reel.com (1,232) on 19 Oct 2006

A towering achievement for Eastwood and his cast and crew…

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By Jim Slotek (879) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 19 Oct 2006

The truth may set you free but it doesn't win wars. And it doesn't make for rousing war movies either. Just honest ones…

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By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 19 Oct 2006

Flags of Our Fathers may well be an accurate depiction of war-zone tumult and its psychic wounds, but that does not make for a cogent narrative…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 19 Oct 2006

There's some slight, indefinable lack to Flags of Our Fathers, some piece of missing brimstone that keeps it from setting the heart afire,…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 19 Oct 2006

Clint Eastwood has played his share of heroes in the movies…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denver Rocky Mountain News (608) on 19 Oct 2006

At 76, Eastwood continues to turn his back on his early image as one of the screen's meanest butt-kickers…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 19 Oct 2006

An American masterpiece. It is a searing and powerful work from a 76-year-old artist who remains at the top of his game…

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By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 19 Oct 2006

Flags of Our Fathers is a tremendous film about the very beginning of celebrity worship, and our need to invent and memorialize brave men…

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By Jeffrey Westhoff (767) for Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (767) on 19 Oct 2006

The most intriguing, and in some ways most courageous, aspect of Flags is how Eastwood deconstructs the use of the word 'hero…

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By Jeffrey Overstreet (498) for Christianity Today (953) on 19 Oct 2006

The campaign to represent Iwo Jima's heroes was a masterful work of spin…

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By Sean P. Means (2,056) for Salt Lake Tribune (1,927) on 19 Oct 2006

[The film's] framing device ... smothers the film in a nostalgic glow that spares us the trouble of feeling the movie's emotions for ourselves…

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By Nathaniel Rogers (250) for Film Experience (395) on 19 Oct 2006

Awkardly structured and too reminiscent of better films…

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By John Venable (339) for Supercala.com (431) on 19 Oct 2006

It's good, great in spurts, but overall leaves one longing for a story better suited for film…

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By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 19 Oct 2006

Although the intentions of the movie are noble and the tale is worth telling, I'm afraid the reverence with which Eastwood relates his story…

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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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