Author: James Adams

About the only thing this cinematic whirligig skimps on is coherence, both narrative and aesthetic.

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It’s boring.

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Red Tails is a lousy film. Not wincingly bad, mind you, just mediocre.

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Amateurishness can have its charms. But when it doesn’t, it looks very much like this excruciatingly farcical, alleged romantic comedy…

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Less an exercise in catharsis than an obstacle course of premise-heavy, flashback-drenched plot points, it’s an emotional flat-liner…

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It’s a thing, not a movie –- if, that is, you believe a movie should be more than an accumulation of prankish set-pieces flimsily strung over 80 skimpy minutes.

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