Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper earned another $30.6 million in its fourth weekend of wide release to bring its domestic total to an eye-popping $247.76m in just 17 days of wide release, with ...

If you can’t do something first, it becomes very important that you do it best — or at least as well as your predecessors. “American Sniper” doesn’t, and that’s its major malfunction.

If “American Sniper” was a film with “no nuance, no context and no subtlety,” as Sophia McClennen described it recently in Salon, that would be the end of the story.

Even as “American Sniper” breaks January box-office records and revels in six Oscar nominations, criticism over the subject of the film, sharpshooter Chris Kyle, is rising and reaching into ...

“American Sniper” earned six Academy Awards nominations on Thursday morning, including for Best Picture and a Best Actor nod for Bradley Cooper, who beefed himself up to play real life Navy ...

“American Sniper” portrays Kyle as something of an armed saint, if a troubled one, but though I ordinarily resist one-sided portrayals, I think that Cooper and Eastwood find in the man a template.

American Sniper —the book, but not the movie—often delves into this uncomfortable moral territory, making the fight in Iraq seem less like a military campaign than a religious crusade.

American Sniper stops there, and maybe for good reason. In July 2013, the judge in the Routh case issued a protective order.

With American Sniper, equal parts war movie and love story, set for release on Christmas Day, Military Times caught up with Taya Kyle to find out how she finally made that peace — and why it was ...