Our Civil War Was Bigger Than You Think
Plus: ‘The Bikeriders’ Review
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CASEY MICHEL: Our Civil War Was Bigger Than You Think
IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY, across a swath of North America, a new nation cracked apart, unleashing waves of bloodshed that left no state untouched. Guerrillas strafed the countryside, while competing armies circled one another, clashing over a country’s destiny. Rattled by the burst of bloodshed, some politicians became convinced that the only solution to dissolution was something the American Founding Fathers had learned nearly a century previously: unification, and the birth of a new nation.
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SONNY BUNCH: ‘The Bikeriders’ Review
THE BIKERIDERS IS A PLEASING LOOK BACK to an age when Americans had proper hooligans to look up to like Marlon Brando in The Wild One. Entranced by his devil-may-care attitude and hypnotized by the cacophonous rattling of his motorcycle, the married-with-kids Johnny (Tom Hardy) decides, more or less on a whim, that the motorcycle gang life is for him.
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