Movie Review | 'War': Martial Arts With a Gun Instead of a Kick
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Today, it seems, anyone seeking a pleasant summer afternoon of dramatic Asian-style fisticuffs must settle for the kind of urban-action/martial-arts hybrid that is âWar.â
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Top Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou is tackling martial arts subjects these days with such enthusiasm that one critic swears that knives, swords and spears fly through his latest film with the force of "fatal Frisbees."
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Zhang Yimou, director of 'Hero,' returns with another martial-arts movie laced with soul and poetry.
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A new study challenges conventional wisdom, suggesting that violent films prevent violent crime by attracting and keeping would-be assailants occupied.
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With âBeaufort,â the Israeli director Joseph Cedar has made a movie about the futility of war.
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Fighting an opponent doesn&#39;t always mean opposing his force. When faced with overwhelming power, good fighters often use their attacker&#39;s force to their advantage, as in judo, for example.
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If aerial dogfights were still part of warfare, the F-22 would give the U.S. an edge. But dogfights, today, are the stuff of video games
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The teaming of Jet Li and  Jason Statham results in a union that&#39;s less than the sum of  its parts in &quot;War,&quot; one of the many entries in the annual  late-summer B-movie onslaught.
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Sign up for the army, but know you could come home in a wheelchair. That was the hard lesson for Iraq war veteran Tomas Young, whose experience is detailed in new film "Body of War."
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The filmmaker compared U.S. troop deployment in Iraq to the kind of human sacrifice depicted in his new film.
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Cut men tend to the wounds of mixed martial arts fighters, who combine elements of boxing, wrestling, karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu in one of the countryâs fastest-growing sports.
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Fans of action movies will find much to appreciate in this symphony of flying limbs, breaking bones and elaborately staged chases and confrontations.
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The powerful may wage war, but it is the powerless who suffer its consequences -- that is the message drummed home by &quot;Stray Dogs,&quot; an Iranian film on Afghanistan's pain after years under the control of warlords and foreign masters.
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Rocky Legends may offer simple button-bashing but its gorgeous visuals make it a surprise KO.
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From the blood-thirsty to the  philosophical, the militant Taliban movement is cast in many  roles in a new Bollywood film about war-ravaged Afghanistan.
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The movie is more of an intellectual exercise than an emotionally resonant experience.
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COM Zhang Yimou channels Akira Kurosawa in Hero, which is even more visually stunning than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Like Kurosawa&#39;s Ran, it features huge armies with