After oscillating between sports , superheroes and even board games without much distinction, the writer, director, producer and actor has made a loose trilogy in which Mark Wahlberg reenacts recent tales of American heroism. Lone Survivor was the kind of movie film critics couldn’t dislike without being called unpatriotic on Fox News, while Deepwater Horizon and now Patriots Day , released within a few months of one another, dramatize recent disasters to emphasize the ways in which they brought out the best in those unfortunate enough to have endured them.