The Big Target on American Sniper

"For years it's been a film-industry truism (and, one imagines, a studio-boardroom cautionary tale) that movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan perform poorly at the box office," Dana Stevens writes in Slate. But not so with American Sniper. 

Dana Stevens, Slate's film critic, discusses the polarizing opinions about American Sniper’s posthumous depiction of Navy Seal Chris Kyle and the Iraq war.