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The Yellow Birds

2017

Alexandre Moors

Tye Sheridan, Alden Ehrenreich, Toni Collette, Jason Patric ...

5.0

68

Drama. War "Yellow Birds" follows John Bartle and the difficulties he faces in keeping his humanity, his urge to survive and his friend Murph alive during the war in Iraq, as well as his life and struggles with his memories of the war after he comes back to Virginia.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"'The Yellow Birds' is a flat and listless piece of moviemaking, a monotonous indie dirge that will probably end up fighting hard to win even a tiny audience."	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"An excellent novel about the Iraq War and its homefront fallout has been turned into a rather flat and disappointing film."	NEG
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"A thoughtful, melancholy drama whose performances and photography are so strong that we keep waiting for the story to catch up (...) Its almost humdrum rhythms are exactly the point."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"It’s not only that 'The Yellow Birds' doesn’t have anything new to say, but that it’s playing movie karaoke with other, better war movies."	NEG
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"While many sequences in 'Yellow Birds' are striking, overall it fails to take flight (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Even if this film covers terrain we’ve seen, Moors and his cast make soldiers’ and their families’ sacrifices sting anew."	POS
United States	Josh Wise Slant	"A confused film about a confused subject (...) The film's battles are a febrile nightmare (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU

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