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The Men Who Stare at Goats is now streaming online on HBO Max. A dark comedy unveils the eccentric world of unconventional warfare tactics.

There's a real-life story hiding in "The Men Who Stare at Goats," George Clooney's loose adaptation of Jon Ronson's non-fiction book about Pentagon ESP research.

Now streaming on: Bear with me here. Imagine "Ghostbusters" is based on a true story. Imagine the Dude from "The Big Lebowski" as a real-life U.S. Army general. All factual, right? That's what "The Men Who Stare at Goats" sort of wants us to believe. I think I sort of do -- to a small degree, sort of. "More of this is true than you would believe," the movie announces in an opening title. I'm waiting for the review of this one in Skeptic magazine. We begin with a newspaperman named Wilton (Ewan McGregor) from Ann Arbor. That's a poignant note, because Ann Arbor recently lost its daily newspape...