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Sand Castle

2017

Fernando Coimbra

Nicholas Hoult, Glen Powell, Tommy Flanagan, Beau Knapp ...

5.2

1,599

War. Drama Set during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.

	Author	Review
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"It’s a stale, phony, grunt-level sort of view of American intervention"	NEG
United States	Derek Smith Slant	"The film purposely ignores the realities of how disastrous situations like the one in Baqubah come about and places blame at the feat of helpless citizens rather than military overreach (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"'Sand Castle' offers too little to the War is Hell genre to be noteworthy (...) On a production level, it’s surprisingly flat (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Guy Lodge The Guardian	"It’s a war movie with a more fluent understanding of war movies than of war itself."	NEG
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"'Sand Castle' does a respectable job of depicting a wretched conflict that none of its participants wanted, but its reason for being feels a little built on sand (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Tirdad Derakhshani Philadelphia Inquirer	"An engaging, gripping fact-based drama"	POS

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