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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 14 Jan 2016

Still, if 13 Hours lacks the gravitas of “American Sniper,” it’s powerful stuff…

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By Soren Andersen (496) for The Seattle Times (964) on 14 Jan 2016

The movie’s main drawback is that its main characters are surprisingly ill-defined.... It’s a frustrating flaw in an otherwise engrossing picture…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 14 Jan 2016

A straight-up combat film…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 14 Jan 2016

Some of this is slick and enjoyable in what I'd characterize as the wrong way, the painlessly bloody, box-office-friendly way…

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By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 14 Jan 2016

As an action film, it is intense and gripping. As a drama, it is bombastic and unsubtle…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 14 Jan 2016

As a brutal and gory combat picture with historical underpinnings, these “Secret Soldiers” acquit themselves heroically…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 14 Jan 2016

After a string of iffy Transformers movies, Bay reminds that he can do a much better action movie with humans than alien robots: 13 Hours is…

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By John Hazelton (142) for Screen International (2,241) on 14 Jan 2016

Intense battle action and rousing heroics just about make up for the dramatic shortcomings of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for Slate (2,081) on 14 Jan 2016

The action is never topsy-turvy enough for 13 Hours to be mistaken for a Paul Greengrass film, but it’s also not so operatic that it feels…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 14 Jan 2016

It’s when bullets fly that Bay is at his best. He stages the battles well, and builds tension effectively and at times inventively…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 14 Jan 2016

The battle scenes are loud and jangly and dissonant enough to unnerve you — they work…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 14 Jan 2016

[Bay's] tremendous sentimentality is a major issue, bogging down his efforts at realism in flag-waving, tear-jerking scenes that try to make…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 Jan 2016

This action facility, however, is not enough to make 13 Hours more than sporadically successful, in part because, at 2 hours and 24 minutes,…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 14 Jan 2016

The movie is a relentlessly intense, grotesquely overblown and numbingly long account of extraordinary heroism on the part of six American…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 14 Jan 2016

It’s long, downright dispiriting, enjoyable only sometimes, and yet there’s a feeling of authenticity…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 14 Jan 2016

The movie is a pummeling slog — 45 minutes of setup and an eternity of relentless combat…

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By Peter Sobczynski (1,159) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 14 Jan 2016

As an action movie and as a historical document, it is a bombastic and wholly inauthentic mess that displays precious little interest in the…

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By Joe Dziemianowicz (76) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 13 Jan 2016

Sure, Bay indulges some signature cinematic fetishes. But he shows restraint with the slowed-down, sexed-up shots…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Jan 2016

To use what, under the circumstances, is a far too convenient metaphor, Bay is interested in accelerating from zero to 100 as quickly as possible…

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By Russ Fischer (68) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Jan 2016

Bay's overwrought tendencies simultaneously lead to the film's most compelling sequences of tense, bloody battle even as they forestall the…

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