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By Nadir Samara (52) for Screen Rant (892) on 30 May 2023

Kandahar won’t knock your socks off, but it offers a solid story that doesn’t try to be something it isn’t…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 26 May 2023

What [Waugh] delivers is precisely what fans are likely looking for, albeit in a package that’s more politically muddled than is necessary…

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By Thom Ernst (141) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 26 May 2023

Kandahar is standard entertainment that pushes for more than what they can deliver. Slight entertainment is the best it can be…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 26 May 2023

I’m all for a juicy, action-packed Gerard Butler movie…

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By Christian Zilko (32) for IndieWire (3,631) on 26 May 2023

For better or worse, Kandahar is a throwback to the kind of Tom Clancy-inspired geopolitical thrillers that used to be a bi-weekly occurrence…

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By Scott Campbell (94) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 25 May 2023

Kandahar finds Gerard Butler doing what he does best, and while there are some admirable attempts to deviate from formula, the end result isn't…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 25 May 2023

Kandahar is one of those movies that exists without having a compelling reason for doing do…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 25 May 2023

Kandahar gets the straight face right, but seems woefully convinced that it’s a serious drama, right down to the wailing-woman soundtrack…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 25 May 2023

Really, though, it is just another tiresome and impenetrably brooding Gerard Butler movie in which no event seems to matter any more than the…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 25 May 2023

It’s a pleasure to see Butler do his thing opposite a talented array of international performers — Fazal and Fimmel are standouts — and…

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By Andrew Crump (271) for The Playlist (3,871) on 25 May 2023

In place of new, at least, we get to see Butler in his element as a man of compassion first and blazing guns second…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 25 May 2023

Everything about this movie feels familiar, like we’ve seen it multiple times before, not necessarily always starring Gerry Butler…

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By Richard Whittaker (567) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 24 May 2023

While Kandahar is undoubtedly spectacular war cinema, it's also a weighty meditation on the seeming impossibility for some of walking away…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 24 May 2023

The dialogue is to the point without being eye-rolling, the action is meaty and mostly CGI-free (the highlight is a night-vision firefight)…

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By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 24 May 2023

It’s an action and suspense film, and, like Butler’s earlier 2023 flick “Plane,” a good one…

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By Ethan Vestby (87) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 24 May 2023

That Kandahar’s geopolitical ambiguity isn’t the richest is maybe to be expected, but paired with lame character dynamics, it sadly sells…

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By Frank Scheck (1,741) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 24 May 2023

As usual, Butler brings a convincing humanity and vulnerability to his action movie heroics…

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By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 24 May 2023

Where Kandahar is most intriguing is in the oddly even-handed depiction of both American and Middle-Eastern characters as largely exasperated…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 24 May 2023

Kandahar is very much a box-ticking exercise, with Butler playing the same kind of hero — perhaps literally the same guy — he has built…

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By Chase Hutchinson (96) for Collider (1,032) on 24 May 2023

None of the action scenes have any passion to them and, even worse, they can feel downright contrived…

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