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Patriots Day (15)

Patriots Day (15)

Drama, History, Thriller

The story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists responsible.

The critical consensus

A senseless outrage is handled with sensitivity in a stirring film that doesn’t need an A-list hero.

***(*)(*)Neil Smith, Total Film, 20/02/2017

Peter Berg's well cast take on the Boston Marathon bombing is visceral and respectful.

****(*)Katherine McLaughlin, The List, 20/02/2017

The third part of Berg’s unofficial Americans-in-crisis trilogy will play better for US audiences than overseas, but it’s still a pacy and often enthralling disaster movie.

***(*)(*)Phil De Semlyen, Empire Online, 20/02/2017

The fear of an insensitive re-enactment makes the first viewing an anxious if enjoyable experience.

****(*)Elena Lazic, Little White Lies, 21/02/2017

Patriots Day is brilliantly made but often hollow and unconvincing as drama.

***(*)(*)Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 22/02/2017

The narrative pulse of this tense thriller about real-life events is strong enough to override Mark Wahlberg’s irritating heroics as a fictional cop.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 23/02/2017

In the end, what emerges is a more socially conscious and holistic picture of the need for community and love instead of division and hate. In short, the sort of mainstream Hollywood film that’s needed right now.

****(*)Alistair Harkness, The Scotsman, 23/02/2017

It may see the world in black and white, it may tug at the heartstrings a little enthusiastically at times but at its best Patriots Day is a taut, pulse-racing thriller that tries to take something positive from the darkest of times.

****(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 24/02/2017

Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg team up again after Deepwater Horizon for this briskly paced procedural.

****(*)Wendy Ide, The Observer, 26/02/2017

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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