“American Sniper” Articles

We need to be aware of the way our largely white, largely Western location shapes the way we hear and use moral language.

What our world needs is not more “traditional” American masculinity.

While American Sniper allows for an uneasy questioning of its protagonist’s jingoism to linger beneath the surface while simultaneously crowding it out, Selma seems too wrapped up in portraying history’s warp and woof, content to offer up its characters as mere players in an inevitable and necessary battle.