If you loved Thank You for Your Service, try Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Thank You for Your Service

2017 · dir. Jason Hall

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

2016 · dir. Ang Lee

What they share

Theysit in Drama / War territory. If that's the register that drew you to Thank You for Your Service, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is

You parade as a hero in a victory tour, but then memories of a brutal Iraq battle resurface. Ang Lee observes the disparity between war and its public image.

If you loved Thank You for Your Service, try Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

Thank You for Your Service

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

What they share

What Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is

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