Movie Review: War Horse By Virginia Florey Sometimes I think Steven Spielberg get a lot of plaudits for being a movie director and then I see one of his movies and I think that he deserves all the ...

"War Horse," directed by Steven Spielberg and featuring Jeremy Irvine and Emily Watson, is a movie about a boy and his horse. Though it's beautifully shot, Seattle Times film critic ...

"War Horse" is not Spielberg's best movie, nor is it even close. But it's no small thing that it contains some of his best stuff. Dec 22, 2011 | Updated Dec 22, 2011 3:14 p.m. MICK LaSALLE.

Time passes — slowly. The horse grows up with Albert still looking on at a distance, until his dad, sent to buy a plow horse, comes back with a pub buzz, empty pockets and the untrained 2-year-old.

The handsome, soppy War Horse allows Steven Spielberg, now in his mid-60s, to check a few more items off his bucket list. The director of Saving Private Ryan makes his World War I movie, borrowing ...

The war is a backdrop that allows us to create drama, but World War I isn't the reason I made this movie." ALBERT "What is it?" SERGEANT "It's a horse they found wandering about in 'No Man's Land.'" ...

Nevertheless, War Horse must be considered a war movie because of the role World War I plays in dictating its every step. It's also a coming-of-age story, a period piece, and a love story.

In 1982, the British author Michael Morpurgo wrote War Horse, a book for younger readers that portrayed the suffering of World War I—on all sides—through the eyes of a horse. Joey, as he’s ...

Steven Spielberg is adapting War Horse into a feature length film, and though it was set to be released in movie theatres on December 28, the movie will now arrive in theatres on Chrismas Day ...

War Horse Trailer 2. Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011) movie trailer 2 stars Jeremy Irvine, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, David Thewlis, and Emily ...

A crew of 750. A budget of $70 million. A "Seabiscuit" star. And a surprise gift from Peter Jackson. Steven Spielberg needed all that and more for his World War I epic.

“War Horse” is a movie that perhaps only Steven Spielberg could have made. This is both good and not so good. On the plus side, the film has many of his trademark virtues – a resonant ...