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American Sniper (2014)

Regardless of its occasional fakeness, American Sniper is a tense, shocking and thought-inducing biopic that is one of Clint Eastwood's better works since Invictus even though I'm going to be pissed if the Academy loves this movie so much that it gets the Best Picture award over Boyhood and Birdman.

Very well crafted film, and well acted by Bradley Cooper.

Intense film that leaves you wrung out by the end.

My main issue is how the people of Iraq are seen as nothing more than targets. I wish there was even one character that wasn't a caricature.

I don't think that this film necessarily glorifies the Iraq war -- it more tells the toll on the soldiers.

I'm not sure why this film has resonated so much with the American public and become a lightning rod. The Hurt Locker dealt with many of the same themes, but maybe we're ready to see it now.