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John Cusack Disaster Reaffirms Iraq Films' Special Place in America's Heart

STV ยท 04/29/08 01:35PM

John Cusack's meander through his second-consecutive anti-war film is coming under heavy fire at the Tribeca Film Festival, where War, Inc. bowed this week to the kinds of reviews that made his previous Iraq entry โ€” the $50,899-grossing Grace is Gone โ€” positively shine in comparison. While he and his agent sift around for a more reliable rom-com follow-up, our preliminary poke through the wreckage yields yet more smoldering evidence that Iraq is officially over as a dramatic subject. We piece together the eyewitness testimony after the jump: