Button-pushing directors ramp up their theatrics
From the swelling strings of John Williams’ bombastic score that opens the film, you know that WAR HORSE (PG-13, 3 1/2 stars) is going to try and make you feel something. And even though the movie can...
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If nothing else, Quentin Tarantino knows how to push buttons. How else to explain him creating DJANGO UNCHAINED (R, 3 stars), a companion piece to his audacious “Inglorious Basterds,” set in the era of...
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