“War Horse” is a movie that perhaps only Steven Spielberg could have made. This is both good and not so good. On the plus side, the film has many of his trademark virtues – a resonant ...

"War Horse," directed by Steven Spielberg and featuring Jeremy Irvine and Emily Watson, is a movie about a boy and his horse. Though it's beautifully shot, Seattle Times film critic ...

Time passes — slowly. The horse grows up with Albert still looking on at a distance, until his dad, sent to buy a plow horse, comes back with a pub buzz, empty pockets and the untrained 2-year-old.

Nevertheless, War Horse must be considered a war movie because of the role World War I plays in dictating its every step. It's also a coming-of-age story, a period piece, and a love story.

"War Horse" is not Spielberg's best movie, nor is it even close. But it's no small thing that it contains some of his best stuff. Dec 22, 2011 | Updated Dec 22, 2011 3:14 p.m. MICK LaSALLE.

The handsome, soppy War Horse allows Steven Spielberg, now in his mid-60s, to check a few more items off his bucket list. The director of Saving Private Ryan makes his World War I movie, borrowing ...

Set during World War I, “War Horse” is based on Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 young adult novel about Joey, a horse that is raised by a young Englishman, Albert, but sold to a British Officer to ...

In 1982, the British author Michael Morpurgo wrote War Horse, a book for younger readers that portrayed the suffering of World War I—on all sides—through the eyes of a horse. Joey, as he’s ...

A crew of 750. A budget of $70 million. A "Seabiscuit" star. And a surprise gift from Peter Jackson. Steven Spielberg needed all that and more for his World War I epic.

Movie Review: War Horse By Virginia Florey Sometimes I think Steven Spielberg get a lot of plaudits for being a movie director and then I see one of his movies and I think that he deserves all the ...