Pull flick = lead to being criticized?

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German Movie Chain Pulls Anti-American Flick
Germany's largest movie chain, CinemaxX, has pulled the hit Turkish film Valley of the Wolves: Iraq, following accusations that the film is anti-Semitic and anti-American. The film depicts American soldiers in Iraq as villains, with Billy Zane playing a sadistic U.S. officer and Gary Busey, a Jewish doctor who harvests the organs of Iraqi prisoners and sells them to clients in the West and in Israel.

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@oristarA,

In this case "pull" means to remove.

When a movie is pulled from a theater, it is no longer being shown there.

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@oristarA,

a flick is a movie

to pull a film is to remove it from circulation

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It being a chain, they've probably removed it from all their theaters, not just one.

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@MontereyJack,

MontereyJack wrote:

It being a chain, they've probably removed it from all their theaters, not just one.

The chain has the same meaning as that of "chain store"?

Thank you all guys.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

MontereyJack wrote:

It being a chain, they've probably removed it from all their theaters, not just one.

The chain has the same meaning as that of "chain store"?

Thank you all guys.

Yes. A chain in this context is a number of establishments using the same brand owned by the same company - a chain of burger restaurants, a chain of cinemas, a chain of toy stores, a chain of coffee and doughnut restaurants.

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Pull flick = lead to being criticized?

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