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By Dan Lybarger (786) for Film Threat (5,156) on 15 Nov 2017

By holding off on obvious pyrotechnics, Linklater achieves more emotional impact than he would have if his characters had spent the entire…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 15 Nov 2017

A touching but fairly clumsy effort that only acquires the depths of sadness and resilience it needs if you have the memory of the earlier…

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By Soren Anderson (264) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 14 Nov 2017

With its well-drawn characters (a Linklater trademark) and mood of quiet restraint, Last Flag Flying touches the heart at a deep level…

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By Mae Abdulbaki (411) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 13 Nov 2017

Despite some strong moments and a great cast, Last Flag Flying is hard to sit through…

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By Sarah Marrs (566) for Lainey Gossip (399) on 12 Nov 2017

Last Flag Flying finds a trio of middle-aged Vietnam veterans road-tripping through post-9/11 America on the saddest mission imaginable…

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By Danielle Solzman (397) for Cultured Vultures (61) on 10 Nov 2017

Last Flag Flying should appeal to anyone who loves a good road trip film with old friends…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 10 Nov 2017

The film winds up like both its subjects and the military they served in: sincere in its objectives, compromised in its execution…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 10 Nov 2017

Linklater is still able to move us, even after he’s bored us half out of the movie with his long set-up, even after Cranston has sucked all…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Movie Mom (753) on 09 Nov 2017

Three of the best actors in the world give immense depth and humanity to characters who might so easily have been caricatures…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 09 Nov 2017

Along the way, there are moments of pathos and light humor but Last Flag Flying only occasionally ventures into melodrama or silliness, and…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 09 Nov 2017

Doc isn't the central figure of co-writer/director Richard Linklater's film, but he is its broken heart, its moral outrage, and its ultimate…

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By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 09 Nov 2017

Last Flag Flying reminds us that how we respond to it - the choices we make in response to it - makes us who we are…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 09 Nov 2017

It's a stand-alone film. Maybe a sequel in terms of some themes, and the general plot device of a transformative train trip…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 09 Nov 2017

For its studiously modest, unassuming tone, Last Flag Flying is a movie of enormous humanity and heart…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 09 Nov 2017

Well-meaning but pedestrian.... Too often...things ring dramatically false, and what is meant to be deeply moving is bathetic instead…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 09 Nov 2017

Stops along the way at a cell phone store and with the mother of a buddy killed in Vietnam (Tyson) provide opportunities for humor, poignancy,…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 09 Nov 2017

Last Flag Flying is a movie about a long road trip that sometimes feels like a long road trip — it's sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes…

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By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 09 Nov 2017

It sends the mind moving, to the links between Vietnam and Iraq, to the bonds of grief and friendship, and to what it means to serve a country…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 09 Nov 2017

Linklater never finds a way to sustain a drama from these characters and their situation…

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By Kelly Vance (1,015) for East Bay Express (1,012) on 08 Nov 2017

[ Richard Linklater 's] obviously proud - perhaps guardedly so - of the camaraderie he shows us, without resorting to overt displays of patriotic…

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