2017 · comedy · crime · drama
American Made
Directed by Doug Liman1h 55m2017
The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
Our read: American Made (2017) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- funny
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“You want Tom Cruise grinning while smuggling history careens off rails.”
Skip it tonight — True-crime absurdity with plane crashes feels too queasy tonight.
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