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  Review by David Sims ★★ 7

  like Tommy Wiseau made an action movie

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  Review by Willow Maclay 13

  I'm not sure how I feel about the entirety of this movie. What I am sure about is the opening moments, and the accuracy of its portrait of three young boys growing up in a Christian household in America. I know this because it was my life. There are certain expectations of you, if you're assigned male at birth, in a home that prioritizes things like prayer on Sunday over Football. You're pushed in a certain direction that radicalizes you at a young age to consider the military as the highest possible honour you could chase in your lifetime. It goes back to the cross, Jesus and sacrifice. It almost makes you godly, so you play with other boys on…

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  Review by Jay ★ 10

  at this point i think its safe to assume clint eastwood shares "how many likes for our troops?!🇺🇸🇺🇸🤔👍" posts on his facebook and bases all his movies off them

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  Review by Will Sloan ★★★★★ 3

  Say what you will about Clint Eastwood -- and I don't love that he did that chair speech either -- but there's no working filmmaker who more accurately depicts the America that I see whenever I drive through it. The America of Clint's post-American Sniper output is an America of shitty bungalows and cheap apartments and ugly strip malls and crumbling legion halls, all shot in a very matter-of-fact style that doesn't rub your nose in ugliness, but doesn't manufacture any prettiness for you either. Populating these bleak landscapes are unremarkable characters (most of them based on real people) on a path of downward mobility who rise out of it through a freak accident of fate. This movie has a…

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  Review by Kyle Donovan ★★ 7

  Should have been 15 to 17 minutes long.

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  Review by Neil Bahadur 7

  Kiarostami circa 1990....American style

  
  I think I liked it but I have absolutely no idea what to make of this movie

  Eastwood, at the tender age of 87, accidentally discovers modernism

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  Review by #1 gizmo fan ★ 14

  uGGGHHhHhHhHHHhHhHhHHHHHHH

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  Review by Jacob ★★★★½ 16

  How can Americans relate to Europe? When you grow up in the historyless, cultureless suburbs, how can you relate to a place as old as Venice in any sort of meaningful way? The 15:17 to Paris is hyper-aware of the banality of tourism; Anthony Sadler's love of the selfie stick is only a (slightly) exaggerated portrayal of what every American tourist in Europe does and feels, a profound sense of surreality (my friend upon arriving in Dubrovnik: "this is a fake place") and our own banality, the concept of something so old and historied being so entirely outside our spectrum of understanding that we must to some extent reduce Europe to a Las Vegas-esque parade of icons and images.

  How…

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  Review by Nate 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I don't think this aside will make my review, but I wanted to include it:

  During the attack sequence, Skarlatos wears a Bayern Munich jersey. In a couple of shots, you can clearly see that is a #25 Thomas Muller jersey. (I cannot say for sure whether the Bayern jersey Skarlatos wore during the actual attack was a Muller one.) Thomas Muller, forward for the German national team and famous for his world cup heroics, is a great player without most of the attributes of a great player. Physically, he is tall-ish but unimpressive, and his skill with the ball is good enough to play for Germany but won't produce gif-able skill moves on a weekly basis. Muller instead is legendary for his ability to drift into space and score vital goals, almost as if acting on instinct. He may be the best player in the world at "being in the right place at the right time."

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★ 2

  Manifest destiny as updated to 21st century. The ultimate reward is your own movie (it is an amazing coincidence that the guys are from Sacramento as this really is Lady Bird’s Republican cousin). Between American exceptionalism and a dedication to the most banal actions. Eastwood’s most plain filmmaking for good and for worse. The first act, in particular, has some very awkward scenes and the film has a split between the push of fiction and taking a step away that is both very intriguing and frustrating. At same time, the editing is sharp, and Eastwood can focus in the most telling details (from the guys watching college basketball to the recoil when Sadler gets in the room after they stop the terrorist). I can’t think of a film that has such a careful look at how American Christianity and militarism are intertwined.

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  Review by kevinyang ½ 26

  If you thought there was a nadir of filmmaking, think again because Clint Eastwood just took his 87-year old body and slammed through it like a running back. The script reads like a parody of a script that someone would describe as a “really bad parody,” and the only eyes that should've been laid on it should've been watching the pages disintegrate in a massive fire pit. Religion, upbringing, and the reasons for enlistment are all fascinating topics, but the dialogue does its best to convince you they're not. With lines like "life is pushing us toward something" and "God told me something exciting would happen to you" and “shut the heck up Alek,” as well as acting that should…

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★★★★ 3

  "I want to go to war; I want to save lives."

  This line, coming approximately a half-hour into The 15:17 to Paris, exposes one of the films central dichomities, the desire if not obsession for war with the rationalization that war is the humane thing to do - a dichomity that Eastwood is not able to reconcile, but merely percieve. The formal gamut the film makes doesn't much resemble the Eastwood of the past, but this thematic thread does: the absurdity of rationalizing war and saviourism as an equalivency is - especially as an 'everyman' story - the heart, if not the truth of America. What makes 15:17 special, both among Eastwood's oeuvre and perhaps, as a film that will…