Last Flag Flying

It’s that graceful humanity that keeps Last Flag Flying from descending into melodrama. It dips a few too many times to stand with the filmmaker’s best work, and a few asides into “wacky old person behavior” are regrettable, but this is another solid dramedy from one of our best working filmmakers.

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Steve Carell stuns in heartbreaking Vietnam film.

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Richard Linklater's military drama focuses on three men and a military funeral – and gives his A-list trio a chance to shine.

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‘Last Flag Flying’ considers the costs of war, from Vietnam to Iraq.

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The superlative performances of the actors reveal the various shades of the characters, whose disillusionments with the military and life have not quenched their gung-ho spirits and jocularity. In this mid-career work, Linklater, too, reveals more of the colors he has tucked away in his filmmaker’s palette.

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Even if Last Flag Flying isn’t quite persuasive, it is nonetheless enormously thought-provoking, and its roughness is a sign of how earnestly it grapples with matters that other movies about war prefer not to think about.

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Last Flag Flying manages to end on a high note in concluding with Larry Jr.’s final known words and end credits underscored by Bob Dylan’s wise and weary “Not Dark Yet.” Would that what came before shined as brightly as its resolution.

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Four powerhouse performances cannot quite make Richard Linklater's occasionally moving dramedy, Last Flag Flying, into more than a minor war movie.

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Limp in the wind.

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New York Film Festival: Despite its sincerity, this message movie misses the mark.

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Cranston, in Last Flag Flying, seeks out the same terrain, but his crudeness is more of a crotchety act, and the journey concludes on a glum conservative note. Some stories need not be told again.

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Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne star in Richard Linklater's road movie as Vietnam vets reuniting after 30 years on a deeply personal mission.

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Three Vietnam veterans go on a rambling odyssey in Richard Linklater's spiritual sequel to 'The Last Detail.' But this one is more written than felt.

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A trio of talented actors – Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne – fail to bring a disappointingly turgid tale alive from the Oscar-nominated director.

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Richard Linklater has created a sequel of sorts to ‘The Last Detail.’

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