Playboy Entertainment Spoken Edition

It’s January, and that means the pickings at the local multiplex are among the leanest and least ambitious of the year. Enter—loud, blustery, rousing, paper-thin—12 Strong. Excitingly directed by newcomer Nicolai Fuglsig (Exfil) and based on Doug Stanton’s harrowing non-fiction bestseller 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers, the movie version is a yay-us (or yay-U.S.), Jerry Bruckheimer-produced, post-9/11 rabble-rouser and flag-waver.