Searchers, The

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Hollywood, as usual, tells us the truth we want to believe, but here at least there is some credit to us in wanting to believe it.

The decision to make this based-on-fact saga into a thriller rather than a moral drama may have been arisen from the assumption that the audience wouldn’t know how the story comes out

Bait, written by a committee (Andrew Scheinman, Adam Scheinman and Tony Gilroy) and directed by Antoine Fuqua, almost rises to the level of a decent movie, but of course it cannot resist (as what contemporary Hollywood movie can resist?) the temptation to over-egg the pudding. The central character is an appealing ne’er-do-well and petty thief…

A moving but ultimately unsatisfying study of a child’s sense of loss and abandonment

An exciting and well-made movie about American soldiers at war in Iraq which doesn’t condescend to them — but which also doesn’t treat them as being quite real