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June 24, 2009 Film » Film Reviews

Urge Overkill

by Michael Joshua Rowin

The Hurt Locker Directed by Kathryn Bigelow Till now cinematic treatments of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars have mostly taken overt, superficial political stances by focusing on the moral horrors precipitated by a misguided, meaningless and drawn-out occupation. Enter Kathryn Bigelow. The…

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