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The same glass - walled Miami mansion has starred in both Rihanna's «Needed Me» music video and 2016's «War Dogs» film.

Mourinho crafted a well balanced squad, that had a mix of talented young players with exciting potential, veterans who were in the prime of their career, and seasoned war dogs who had the experience to guide the squad through any challenge.

In this adapted excerpt from a new book, the author combines her experience with military working dogs and the science of dogs» special abilities to make a case for our war dog force

He always gets the best treats and we laughed so hard last night during War Dogs!

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It's clear virtually from the get - go that filmmaker Todd Phillips is looking to transform this true - life tale into a Martin Scorsese - like crime drama, as evidenced by War Dogs» less - than - subtle visuals and almost paint - by - numbers rise - and - fall structure.

Aside from its more obvious predecessors, War Dogs also takes a superficial, but interesting look at the cultural legacy of Brian De Palma's Scarface.

More than any other word, that tidily sums up Teller, who pinballs between beloved indies and big - budget fare like Fantastic Four and, this year alone, both a comedy opposite Jonah Hill (War Dogs) and an upcoming drama about PTSD (Thank You for Your Service).

With a lively wit and urgent fire in the eyes, Lupita Nyong» o portays T'Challa's ex, currently one of the nation's undercover «war dogs» surveying the outside world.

De Armas will next show up in War Dogs opposite Jonah Hill and Miles Teller, with the gun - running comedy drama due on August 26.

It works just fine as popcorn entertainment, but for a movie called «War Dogs,» it's all bark and no bite.

In the new comedy - drama War Dogs, Jonah Hill and Miles Teller play childhood friends who meet up again in their late 20s and go into business as arms dealers.

But while «War Dogs» occupies a similar space as Adam McKay's Oscar - winning dramedy, it doesn't really have anything important to say — or rather, the important stuff feels like an afterthought compared to the dramatized events at the center of the film.

Yet where War Dogs offers a cautious celebration of reckless, industrious youth, the film itself is the product of a filmmaker who is utterly unwilling to scavenge for advantageous points of entry.

When the movie focuses on David and Efraim's hustle, «War Dogs» is really enjoyable.

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There's always the sense that this film will only work if an audience believes that the scampish wars dogs themselves are full - bore badasses, and not pathetic bottom - feeders in hand - me - down cabana wear.

This is not the first time Cooper and Phillips produced a production, they produced the upcoming feature film War Dogs which features Miles Teller and Jonah Hill as international arms dealers.

Thanks to some great performances, «War Dogs» rises above similar themed films (for some reason, I kept thinking back to 1983's «Deal of the Century» as well as 2005's «Lord of War»).

The Please Don't Use «Fortunate Son» in Another Motion Picture Ever Again Award: (tie) Suicide Squad, War Dogs

As one of the last films of the summer season, «War Dogs» is definitely one to watch before you end your summer vacation.

«Based on a true story,» the Todd Phillips comedy War Dogs frequently «improves» upon the truth, Hollywood - style.

In the hands of Hangover trilogy director Phillips, War Dogs annoys in a variety of ways: its halfhearted critique and sympathetic embrace of machismo and whatever - it - takes business savvy (the women in the story, uniformly P.Y.T.s, serve as sex objects and the buzzkill voice of morality), wall - to - wall use of overplayed source music (a Warner Bros. hallmark these days), and frequently sitcomedic joke constructions (Albania is «a beautiful place,» Cooper's character promises; cut to blue - grey blight).

Combat zone dramedy «War Dogs,» starring Bradley Cooper, Jonah Hill and Miles Teller, will probably make respectable box office bank when it lands in theaters Aug. 19.

Formerly known as Arms and the Dudes, the first trailer for the dark comedy War Dogs has just arrived.

The music was composed by Cliff Martinez («The Foreigner,» «War Dogs»).

War Dogs spotlights the apolitical domestic greed of military - industrial cash grabbing, heartily represented by Hill's embodiment of same.

The partners learn «war dogs» are nicknames for «bottom - feeders who make money off war without ever stepping foot on the battlefield.»

«War Dogs,» an entertaining biopic adapted from Guy Lawson's Rolling Stone article «The Stoner Arms Dealers,» offers the kind of implausibly flamboyant tale that Hollywood loves.

In other hands, War Dogs might have been a fresh classic of political satire instead of a crime comedy that plays as sub-Scorsesean riff.

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War Dogs is nowhere near as in your face as say The Wolf of Wall Street or as confusing as The Big Short may have gotten.

Call it War Dog — Max is the story of a dog trained to work with military units in Afghanistan, who finds a new life with family in the States after his handler is killed in action.

War Dogs has the air of The Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short as it is further proof of the obsession many young men have with money and power and how far it takes them before it all comes crashing down on them.

«War Dogs» involves a story you'd never believe was true, but it's actually based on a Rolling Stone article by Guy Lawson in 2011.

The film features a fierce group of Wakandan women, including Nakia (Academy Award ® winner Lupita Nyong» o), a War Dog and Wakandan spy; Shuri (Letitia Wright), T'Challa's little sister and tech wizard; and the Dora Milaje, the all - female Wakandan Special Forces led by Okoye (Danai Gurira).

Who wouldn't want to see a character like Terence Fletcher, played by J.K. Simmons (Juno, Upcoming Justice League movie as Commissioner Gordon) in front of a live audience, using funny profanity, hollering, and acting like a maniac at a lovable character like Andrew Neiman, played by Miles Teller (War Dogs, Bleed for This)?

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by Walter Chaw Like The Big Short before it, Todd Phillips's War Dogs is a breezy, loose, «for dummies» gloss on recent history that says for all the things you thought were going to hell in the world, you don't know the fucking half of it, buddy.

War Dogs, alas, is a sort of bro version of Goodfellas where the the good guy, David, is unambiguously good and the bad guy, Efraim, is Hannibal Lecter and they both unironically venerate Scarface.

Hill and Miles Teller star in War Dogs (a true story originally titled Arms and Dudes), but they weren't the first actors cast.

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Bad Moms landed just below War Dogs, also with an estimated $ 6 million, but has managed to break $ 100 million in revenue and continues to be a strong winner at the box office.

Playing a little catch up as we close out August, starting with Todd Phillips» latest bro - nightmare movie, War Dogs.

In the tradition of Scarface, Goodfellas, and The Wolf of Wall Street — so basically, all the classic American Scumbag movies — with a dash of The Big Short thrown in for a falsely moralizing ending, War Dogs is a sweaty, bro - y, barely even sheepish celebration of Bush - era amorality dressed in coke and cash that squanders a brilliant scumbag performance from Jonah Hill.

Ending with Leonard Cohen's «Everybody Knows,» War Dogs congratulates the audience for being smart after a couple of hours of The Hangover misadventure with stakes no higher than whether or not David will win back the wife he doesn't deserve and walk away with enough money to never have to be a massage therapist again.

War Dogs is the latest in his hate - watch catalog, and it's a particularly ugly example of the Phillips phenomenon.

Todd Phillips «War Dogs might become one of the summer's few pleasant surprises.

War Dogs feels like a cautionary tale about excess instead of an exposé of how the worship of money may finally be the thing that brings down all of it.

War Dogs adapts a magazine article about two assholes in particular, David Packouz (Miles Teller) and Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill), who made a fortune, then made a terrible mistake when they decided to traffic a hundred million rounds of defective Chinese AK - 47 ammo by disguising it as Albanian stock.