Movies
January, 1968
When a movie sets out to lampoon war, war heroes and patriotism in general, as does Richard Lester's How I Won the War, it has to be better than just good; it must be superbly satiric to avoid the long knives of the jingoists on the one hand and the hatchets of disappointed sympathizers on the other. Unfortunately, Lester's new film is so far from even good that he is bound to get it from both sides. After the flash and panache of A Hard Day's Night and The Knack, he seems to feel that his freew...
