“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 ...

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.

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 ...

The movie is based on Michael Morpugo's 1982 best-seller, which was previously adapted for the stage. By Todd McCarthy An elegant, elemental, borderline corny boy-and-his horse story magnified in ...

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 ...

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 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.

The 21st century is a decade of great movies, but the war genre, in particular, has delivered some epic entries in only 25 years. ... War Horse Movie Poster. Image via Sony Pictures.

Why it is one of the best horse movies: Inspired by the Tony Award-winning play, which itself is based on Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 novel, War Horse is a moving story of love and courage and one ...