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By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 08 Feb 2018

Here is Eastwood's latest warm-milk paean to embattled American heroism, hanging a hat on God-and-guns homilies rather than challenging truths…

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By Emma Simmonds (380) for The List (2,018) on 08 Feb 2018

That these men are brave beyond measure and saved countless lives is in no doubt but, with its focus on the dullest of details, lack of psychological…

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By David Jenkins (910) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 08 Feb 2018

Another cool and subtle treatise on the nature of heroism from this American master…

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By Kevin P. Sullivan (44) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 08 Feb 2018

Eastwood seems to be reaching for some level of realism, but when every single interaction feels like half-coded AI tried to recreate bro talk,…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 08 Feb 2018

A strangely boring, dramatically inert film in which the main characters remain as opaque and unreadable as sphinxes to the very last…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 08 Feb 2018

Dramatically inert and flatter than a buzz cut, the movie ends up diminishing their moment of heroism by turning it into a defiantly amateurish…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 08 Feb 2018

The complex movie that might have been is still on the drawing board, teasing us with a deeper story that's disappointingly out of reach…

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By Linda Marric (107) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 08 Feb 2018

A disappointing telling of a heroic story, with a commendable attention to detail highlighting narrative shortcomings…

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By Terry Staunton (141) for Radio Times (2,421) on 08 Feb 2018

Ultimately, its greatest shortcoming is that it's lazy, half-hearted button-pushing, more grimly tedious than gung-ho…

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By Pablo A. Scholz (320) for Clarín (492) on 08 Feb 2018

the film falls in a pothole from which it escapes when the Moroccan Ayoub el-Khazzani gets on the train…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 08 Feb 2018

The result is a case study in why getting things right isn't necessarily the right way to make a movie. Facts can be really dull…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 08 Feb 2018

To call Clint Eastwood's The 15:17 to Paris a mixed bag would be generous…

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By Daniel Schindel (90) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 08 Feb 2018

The 15:17 to Paris is a long stretch of boredom culminating in one jolt of interest…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 Feb 2018

Even though of course we recognize the bravery and selfless heroism of the men on that train who risked their lives to save others, and even…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 08 Feb 2018

If Eastwood wanted to use the real men, a documentary would have been just as powerful and more dramatically satisfying…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 08 Feb 2018

A movie about ordinary American heroes that stars ordinary American heroes. About 15 minutes of the film concerns the actual heroics…

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By Simon Foster (434) for Screen-Space (209) on 07 Feb 2018

Eastwood can't overcome the inherent problem that everyday Joes like split-second heroes Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler don't…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 07 Feb 2018

Eastwood's main achievement here lies in trusting his hunch that the young men could handle playing themselves onscreen, with an acceptable…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for TheWrap (3,203) on 07 Feb 2018

A few minutes of nail-biting, recreated heroism isn’t enough to justify the other 90-or-so minutes in Clint Eastwood’s dry salute of a…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 07 Feb 2018

A mawkish Dorothy Blyskal script, based on a memoir by the three, a cumbersome flashback structure that lacks suspense, a grasped then quickly…

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