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June 30, 2020

“The Patriot” at 20: Yankee Doodle Dreary

20 years later, Roland Emmerich's Revolutionary War drama skewers U.S. history and Mel Gibson's persona without trying to—or realizing it.
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November 12, 2019

Box Office Report: “Doctor Sleep” Loses the War to “Midway”

The Stephen King sequel checks out with a disappointing opener, but Roland Emmerich's WWII epic flies high.
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November 8, 2019

Ed Skrein and Luke Kleintank on Honoring WWII Heroes in “Midway”

The stars of Roland Emmerich's epic war film sit down to talk about research, gum, and the Greatest Generation.
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November 7, 2019

Midway Review: WWII Drama Lumbers With Clumsy Solemnity

Roland Emmerich's dull, misguided World War II epic tries to mask its Pacific-sized flaws in the cloak of patriotism.
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May 26, 2019

“The Day After Tomorrow” and Disaster Flicks as Political Polemic

Fifteen years after its release, Roland Emmerich's environmental disaster film is no less corny, but its warnings about climate change ring depressingly more urgent.