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‘Official Secrets’ Is a Devastating Reminder of the Power of Deception

Chris Barsanti / 29 August 2019

Gavin Hood's thriller about British whistleblower Katharine Gun's attempt to stop the Iraq War, Official Secrets, is nothing special artistically, but its intense relevance burns the screen.

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‘X-men-Origins: Wolverine’ Can’t Tell Which Story to Tell

Michael Curley / 13 September 2018

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‘Eye in the Sky’ Shows There Is No Remove When Waging War from a Distance

Cynthia Fuchs / 13 March 2016

For all the intelligence and firepower that such technology allows, drones also raise pressing questions, laid out in Eye in the Sky with a schematic and often unnerving precision.

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