Possibly the best work of any kind about the Vietnam War since Michael Herr's vigorous and hallucinatory book "Dispatches.".
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This review of Platoon (1986) was written by Vincent Canby and published by The New York Times on 17 May 2016.
Platoon has generally received very positive reviews.
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