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With few bright spots, ‘Lone Survivor’s’ score feels as political as the film

Lone Survivor Composed by Explosions in the Sky and Steve Jablonsky Metropolis Movie Music One of the more surprising developments this winter has been the financial success of Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor, a half true-to-life action thriller about 2005’s failed Operation Red Wings. Against the Oscar fare that typically hits multiplexes this time of year, it’s grossed …

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‘Lone Survivor’ a workmanlike, painfully straightforward depiction of unsubtle courage

Lone Survivor Written and directed by Peter Berg USA, 2013 The most unsettling moment in Lone Survivor, upon reflection, is its opening shot, one that mirrors the first moments of the extended long-take beginning of Gravity, albeit in a more Earthbound fashion. The former is a static shot of bleak, dry land in Afghanistan as …

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