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The word closure is one of the most dishonest words in the English language. It implies that grief has a door, and that the right conversation, the right apology, the right moment of witnessed pain, can shut it. Reed Van Dyk's Atonement knows this. It is a film about a man who wants closure and a woman who has learned to live without it, and it is wise enough to understand that those are not the same journey and cannot be resolved into one. That wisdom, more than anything els

Lately, I've been on a binge to watch/rewatch the more recent Best Picture-nominated films that went home with nothing on Oscar night. I've even made some articles on what may have happened to them over on my Substack account. Since I had a copy of War Horse hiding away in my endless DVD collection, I figured it was time to open this bad boy out and see what I thought of it. Unfortunately, War Horse falls right into the same problems I've been having with Steven Spielberg fro