Patriots Day is a surprisingly steady retelling of a tragic event.

| Jul 30, 2019

A taut, multi-stranded account of the Boston marathon bombing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2017

It's not suspenseful so much as commemorative and even, in paying tribute to the resilient spirit of Boston and all of those caught up in this attack, celebratory. It's a kind of civic tribute.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2017

This movie chronicles the hours before the bombing and the manhunt over the days afterwards, often in forensic detail, combining traditional crime-thriller drama with real CC온라인카지노추천, news and mobile phone footage.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2017

The strong narrative pulse overrides the irritation of Wahlberg's blue-collar alpha-saint.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2017

The hard-drive details of the day's horror stay with you.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2017

Patriots Day is stirring, well-acted, moving and built with conviction and flair.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2017

The first half hour of Patriots Day is riveting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 22, 2017

Berg deserves more recognition than he gets - he's Michael Bay with a social conscience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2017

The third part of Berg's unofficial Americans-in-crisis trilogy will play better for US audiences than overseas, but it's still a pacy and often enthralling disaster movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2017

As Berg demonstrated in his last film, Deepwater Horizon, he knows how to find his way around a broad canvas.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2017

Much of this feels familiar or worse, especially the cringeworthy finale.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 3, 2017

A great strength of this film is a focus on extended scenes, some quiet, some explosive, ones that remind me of the best recent television such as True Detective.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2017

A surprisingly solid thriller, Patriots Day paints a compelling picture of a city in crisis but fails to strike the right balance between fact and fiction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2017

"Patriots Day" touches on vast phenomena, looking at an event that packs a huge amount of modern mental space in its crisp narrative confines. That's why its blandly reductive simplicity is all the more unfortunate.

| Jan 23, 2017

The kind of all-star disaster movie you might've seen in the 70s (with photos of Simmons, Goodman, Bacon, and the rest of the supporting players lined up in a neat row at the bottom of the poster), complete with half-baked backstories and dopey romances.

| Jan 17, 2017

A gripping, tense drama centered on a man who exemplifies American values of decency and integrity and shows exceptional ability to rise to the occasion.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 13, 2017

A film content with the charming, if chuckleheaded, cartoon of the Boston local that Wahlberg has regularly inhabited throughout his career.

| Jan 13, 2017

The film, which swivels frantically between first responders, survivors, and investigators, has a percussive force.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 13, 2017

An efficient and intense thriller that mines the best tropes of the chase genre.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 13, 2017