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By Armond White (604) for National Review (314) on 14 Feb 2018

The 15:17 to Paris [is] more than the typical docu-drama and confirms director Clint Eastwood's canny political instinct and his artistic daring…

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By Orlando Maldonado (53) for Movie Network (62) on 14 Feb 2018

A recruitment pamphlet would have proved more effective than the latest army propaganda for theaters from acclaimed director Clint Eastwood…

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By Josephine Livingstone (57) for The New Republic (897) on 14 Feb 2018

They're all handsome but just appalling actors. This disjuncture is impossible to forget while watching the film, and it's very uncomfortable…

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By Rick Kisonak (485) for Seven Days (657) on 14 Feb 2018

Like all art that employs negative space, The 15:17 to Paris is really about what the audience doesn't see: in this case, the unthinkable horror…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 14 Feb 2018

Clint Eastwood’s The 15:17 to Paris celebrates old-fashioned American heroism, and I like it — in spite of its dumbbell infelicities…

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By Jim Schembri (1,298) for 3AW (1,025) on 13 Feb 2018

Whatever the film's shortcomings, one thing you can't fault Eastwood for is his unassailable commitment to celebrating American heroism…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 13 Feb 2018

There's no story to tell until the thing happens, and once it happens, it's over in a few minutes. It's not a movie, it's an anecdote…

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By Carlos Marañón (57) for Cinemanía (Spain) (558) on 13 Feb 2018

the director seeks to reflect on the hero without finding the pulse of his heroism. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Nate Fisher (3) for MUBI (191) on 13 Feb 2018

This film courts that kind of lionization far less than one would expect from Eastwood at this stage, and stands out among our contemporary…

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By Ian Mantgani (20) for The Skinny (809) on 13 Feb 2018

Eastwood is making a point here about the heroism of ordinary men, the grit behind seemingly banal bros, though it's one of the oddest and…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 12 Feb 2018

One can't help but think that a movie chronicling Ayoub El Khazzani's journey toward that fateful day might be more interesting and useful…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 12 Feb 2018

Despite good intentions, the movie never lives up to the breathless excitement the real-life story promises…

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By Luis Martínez (274) for El Mundo (Spain) (301) on 12 Feb 2018

This time, the proverbial lack of subtlety in the director's narrative is not synonymous with agility. [Full Review in Spanish]…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for The Ringer (285) on 12 Feb 2018

It has an epic fail of a screenplay which, in a curiously heavy-handed style, anchors the events in a morass of talk about destiny…

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By Josh Terry (603) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 12 Feb 2018

Fortunately, once things jump ahead, we see Spencer and Alek make their way into the military (now played by themselves) and things get progressively…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 12 Feb 2018

The first half of this drama is slow and awkward, mainly due to the stars' amateurish acting; but once it finally gets going, Eastwood's skilled…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for New Yorker (1,403) on 12 Feb 2018

The 15:17 to Paris suffers from an excess of dramatic wadding, and the over-all effect is too muffled and often too dull, sadly, to make an impact…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 12 Feb 2018

Perhaps his curious gambit of casting real-life figures would never have gelled, but Stone, Skarlatos, and Sadler are not unsympathetic, just…

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By Paul Whitington (413) for Irish Independent (461) on 11 Feb 2018

After an hour or so of aimless waffle, the incident itself is thrown away in 10 minutes, accompanied by a predictable dose of jingoism…

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By Tom Shone (158) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 11 Feb 2018

Not a major Eastwood film, but undeniably stirring…

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