However, the message running through We Were Soldiers is too laboured and too sentimental.

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The sentimental strain is both unconvincing and ungrounded, but in the all-too-rare moments when Murphy, who invests with psychodrama the role of a misfit learning manners, lets himself go the movie comes brilliantly to life.

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Barclays' executives are Wall Streeters at heart, but that sentimental attachment counts for little with American regulators and politicians, who would hesitate to take responsibility for a too-big-to-fail British retail bank.

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