If you loved The Yellow Birds, 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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The Yellow Birds

2018 · dir. Alexandre Moors

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

2016 · dir. Ang Lee

What they share

Theyboth carry the gut punch mood tag, and they sit in Drama / War territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Yellow Birds, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

gut punch

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 The Yellow Birds, try Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

The Yellow Birds

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

What they share

What Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is

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