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'Joe Bell' Film Review: Mark Wahlberg Hits the Road to Make You Cry

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Also Read: 'Concrete Cowboy' Film Review: Idris Elba Drama Finds Vibrant Life at Street-Corner StablesAn open-hearted, unapologetically emotional story of a man struggling to come to terms with what happened to his son and with his own complicity in it, "Joe Bell" makes good use of the Everyman appeal of Mark Wahlberg.

It's certainly not a landmark like "Brokeback Mountain," Ossana and McMurtry's previous film that dealt with gay issues in a Western setting was -- and it won't be mentioned alongside McMurtry's "The Last Picture Show" and "Terms of Endearment," either, though that trio of films sets a pretty high bar."Joe Bell," by contrast, is earnest and passionate, sometimes awkward and overdone and sometimes quietly affecting.

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