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Flags of Our Fathers

2006

Clint Eastwood

Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey ...

6.7

48,694

War. Drama The Battle of Iwo Jima, fought in the winter of 1945 on a rocky island south of Japan, brought a ferocious slice of hell to earth: in a month's time, more than 22,000 Japanese soldiers would die defending a patch of ground a third the size of Manhattan, while nearly 26,000 Americans fell taking it from them. The battle was a turning point in the war in the Pacific, and it produced one of World War II's enduring images: a photograph of ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A film of awesome power and blistering provocation (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Richard Corliss Time	"Eastwood has crafted a bold and meticulous epic."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"In his new film about the battle for Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood says something new and urgent about the uses of war and of the men who fight."	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"[It] stands with the best movies of this young century and the old one that preceded it: It's passionate, honest, unflinching, gripping, and it pays respects."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Eastwood's two-film project is one of the most visionary of all efforts to depict the reality and meaning of battle (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Ambitiously tackling his biggest canvas to date, Clint Eastwood continues to defy and triumph over the customary expectations for a film career."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"With toughness and stubbornness, the film insists on the unpleasant realities of war through the voice of a now aged and grizzled participant (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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