Doug Liman’s small-scale war movie pits two American soldiers (John Cena and Aaron Taylor-Johnson, the latter looking like Jake Gyllenhaal and talking like Casey Affleck and acquitting himself admirably) against an Iraqi sniper in the pipelined, post-war wasteland. The sniper has the clear advantage: they don’t know where he is, …
Actor Paul Dano’s move into directing, co-writing, and co-producing for Wildlife probably won’t attract anything like the attention that Bradley Cooper’s similar turn for A Star is Born has, and it’s a pity, because it’s a strong (if awfully sad, though not self-pityingly so) debut and a better film, built …