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June 30, 2017
At the Movies: A thrilling epic in new ‘Planet of the Apes'
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
AP Film Writer
"War for the Planet of the Apes" is a riveting and surprisingly poignant epic.
Apparently all the new Planet of the Apes films needed to do to really hit a home run was take the humans out of the equation. It's what this whole trilogy has been leading to, really, as we dipped our toes into the rise, dawn and now war of this burgeoning civilization of apes and the humans who are desperately and often dishonorably fighting for their survival.
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