As Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper" opens, a tense, sweat-stained Bradley Cooper is ensconced in his Middle East sniper's nest. His finger is poised to pull the trigger as he peers ...

"American Sniper" is not a war movie: It's a classic revisionist western, and one of Eastwood's finest Like all revisionist westerns, the film is actually a subtle critique on frontier justice and ...

“Unbroken” and “Sniper” come on the heels of David Ayer’s in-the-trenches World War II drama “Fury,” which was a solid box-office performer in spite of grisly subject matter and R ...