Salon.com > War Horse http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 14:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “War Horse”: Spielberg’s almost-great World War I epic http://www.salon.com/2011/12/25/war_horse_spielbergs_almost_great_world_war_i_epic/ http://www.salon.com/2011/12/25/war_horse_spielbergs_almost_great_world_war_i_epic/#comments Sun, 25 Dec 2011 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10760521 It's difficult to say who Steven Spielberg's "War Horse" was made for -- I suppose the most plausible and most honorable answer is that he made it for himself. This two-and-a-half-hour Great War saga with an equine hero is partly John Ford-style British Isles claptrap and partly a grueling tale of man's inhumanity to man (and also horse). It's likely to seem too dark for family audiences -- I certainly would not suggest bringing children younger than 10 or 11 -- and too treacly for many grown-ups. "War Horse" is certainly a movie for Spielberg's fans, for those who are enraptured by the blend of childhood yearning and adult grief that characterizes his mature work, and also by his film-school-on-steroids effort to re-create the look, mood and feeling of bygone cinematic eras.

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