Review: With "The Walk," Robert Zemeckis breathes new life into a fantastic true story
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With The Walk, Robert Zemeckis has accomplished something I never necessarily thought he could: He made me cry, openly and unexpectedly, in the purest and most fulfilling way possible.
I expected he would do this story – a dramatization of Philippe Petit’s infamous high-wire walk across the twin towers of the World Trade Center, most famously portrayed…
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