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Patriots Day soft-pedals the citywide lockdown that followed the Boston Marathon bombing

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Mark Wahlberg stars as a Boston cop on the trail of two lone-wolf jihadists. Patriots Day, Peter Berg's new drama about the Boston Marathon bombing, arrives in theaters less than four years after the attack, which left three people dead and hundreds more wounded. Sensitive to this, star­-coproducer Mark Wahlberg and director-cowriter Peter Berg take great pains to celebrate the humanity of those who were on Boylston Street near the finish line of the race in April 2013, when two pressure-cooker bombs exploded in quick succession, spraying shrapnel across the sidewalk.…

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