A World War II football game makes The Mosquito Bowl into a macho-movie caricature
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The only thing less nuanced than a bloodthirsty war movie is a bloodthirsty war-and-football movie. American college football players, now eager Marines, explain the concept of “nuance” to each other partway through the pandering WWII drama The Mosquito Bowl. It’s an unfortunately instructive …
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