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This Weeks Movie Reviews: Why We Fight With Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1961 warning about the rise of the military-industrial complex as his thesis statement, director Eugene Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger) makes a compelling, if not entirely fresh, series of points about the American war machine and the country's trek toward empire. A combination of personal narrative, political commentary, and a now-familiar collage of snappily edited footage, Why We Fight explores how the ever-growing war industry affects individuals and the future of the nation. Read more... The Libertine As King Charles II (John Malkovich) says to John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester (Johnny Depp), "It's fun to be against things." It's tempting to be against The Libertine, a muddled, dark adaptation by Stephen Jeffreys of his play of the same name. Depp's Wilmot even suggests it's expected: "You will not like me," he sneers at the camera, his face, almost luminous in candlelight, framed purposefully by the shaggy hair of an '80s rock star. It's not that The Libertine is truly unlikable. It's just that finding things to like under the movie's patchwork plot and wheezy, indistinct morality may take more effort than it's worth. Read more...
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