The running time on Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs — i.e., a few minutes short of an hour and a half — is feeding negative buzz on the film as little more than a piece of agitprop, the reasoning being that nothing that short and ostensibly heavily political can also be of legitimate substance. We’ll soon see; I’m screening the movie, Redford’s first film behind the camera since The Legend of Bagger Vance, this week. After kicking off AFI Fest on November 1 in Los Angeles, the movie opens nationally November 9.