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The Truth About Emanuel
2013 · Drama · Thriller
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Not if. When.
When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
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Nuclear conflict is one of those subjects that’s almost too big to think about despite the possibility of its occurrence being something we can’t and shouldn’t ignore. Unfortunately, then, it’s frustrating when a film comes along that might help to shed some light on the subject but that leaves viewers not entirely clear what to make of it. Such is the case with this clumsily constructed offering from Oscar-winning d…
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As a Gen X-er who grew up during the throes of the Cold War -- watching Kathryn Bigelow's **A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE** is such an anxious, nail-biting experience that I offer no apologies for naming it the scariest film of the year. We are spared the horrors shown in the 1984 BBC sensation **THREADS** -- and instead given a very 21st century crash course on US missile defense systems after a seemingly rogue ICBM is launch…
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