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June 12, 2020

At the Movies: Spike Lee's Vietnam film is the right movie for right now

By JOCELYN NOVECK
AP National Writer

Lee wanted to make that sorely missing Vietnam film in which black soldiers weren't just a side story, but THE story.

Good news: there's no expensive “de-aging” process used in “Da 5 Bloods,” Spike Lee's absorbing, brash, exhausting, urgent, sometimes brilliant and sometimes unapologetically messy new film about four black Vietnam vets who return to the battlefield site for reasons ... well, we'll get to the reasons.


 
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