‘The Mosquito Bowl’ churns war and football into an unexciting slog
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The real-life story of a football game played by Marines headed into combat during World War II is fumbled by filmmaker Peter Berg, too enamored of flash. A football game in the middle of a war sounds as high concept as movies get. And yet Peter Berg’s Netflix epic “The Mosquito Bowl” is based on a …
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