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Flags of our Fathers (2006) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Flags of our Fathers (2006) a score of 2.9757 out of 4

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Good

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Fair

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Poor

(1)

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Foote on Film (John H. Foote)

I still find it odd that Clint Eastwood, best known to a generation as Dirty Harry (1971), a renegade cop fighting evil, has become one of the five finest American directors working in modern cinema. Yet that is precisely what has happened. Over the...read the complete Flags of our Fathers (2006) review at Foote on Film (John H. Foote)

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Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)

Eastwood has made an honorable movie about honor, but the naivete of the conception - which some will call purity - keeps "Flags" at arm's length from greatness....read the complete Flags of our Fathers (2006) review at Christian Science Monitor (Peter Rainer)

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The Phantom Tollbooth

Hollywood has been making war pictures for as long as there has been film to print it on. Many films look at the evolution of war and some at the foolishness and horrors of these events. But all ultimately tell us something of history though through one...read the complete Flags of our Fathers (2006) review at The Phantom Tollbooth

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RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)

Flags of our Fathers is a big mess and that's a shame because the planned follow-up sounds extremely interesting. Since I've already teased it I'll mention the "sort of" sequel is Letters from Iwo Jima, a war movie told from the perspective of Japanese so...read the complete Flags of our Fathers (2006) review at RopeofSilicon (Laremy Legel)

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James Bowman

Clint Eastwood's Flags of our Fathers is the bigger and more expensive side of a cinematic diptych, the other half of which is a movie in Japanese, to be released next year, called Letters from Iwo Jima. It tells the story of General...read the complete Flags of our Fathers (2006) review at James Bowman

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