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‘The Mosquito Bowl’ Review: ‘Friday Night Lights’ Meets ‘Five Came Back’ in Peter Berg’s Formulaic Netflix Movie About a World War II Football Game

Ray Nicholson and Bill Skarsgård star in an unexceptional sports drama that falls well short of a first down.

'The Mosquito Bowl'

Netflix

There have been any number of movies about the hell of fighting in World War II, the most visceral of which have been made in the years since “Saving Private Ryan” provided a very enduring template for how modern filmmakers could render that carnage with both the spectacle of a blockbuster and the horror of a memory. Peter Berg’s brutal and concussive “The Mosquito Bowl” is definitely one of them!…