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Movie Review for Battle of Algiers-Reissue, The
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46 Reviews total.
Release date: 1/9/2004
Run length: 120 mins.
Categories:
Drama
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Art/Foreign
Summary:
True-to-life chronicle of the Algerian people's struggle to overthrow the French Colonial Government in the mid-1950s. The focus is thrown on the leaders of the Liberation Movement and the French general who is driven obsessively with catching them.
Reviews of Battle of Algiers-Reissue, The
By
Jurgen Fauth
of About.com (3/5) No reference
A timelessly powerful film.
By
Phil Villarreal
of Arizona Daily Star (3/5) No reference
The painful, desperate film, a re-enactment of Algerian revolutionaries' efforts to break free fr...
By
Rob Thomas
of Capital Times (Madison, WI) (3/5) No reference
The film's explosive power transcends the headlines.
By
Sam Jordison
of Channel 4 Film (3/5) No reference
Vital and disquieting, this is a powerful depiction of the pity of war. As shocking today as it w...
By
Don Druker
of Chicago Reader (4/4) No reference
Pontecorvo has nearly accomplished the impossible: to make an epic film that convinces the viewer...
By
David Sterritt
of Christian Science Monitor (4/4) No reference
Like all masterpieces, it speaks to later ages as powerfully and intelligently as to its own.
Reviews of Battle of Algiers-Reissue, The
By
Jeffrey M. Anderson
of Combustible Celluloid (4/4) No reference
A startling and still-potent view of the double standard of war.
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (4/4) No reference
A riveting look at France's failed attempt to remain a colonial force in Algeria. Re-release.
By
Arthur Lazere
of culturevulture.net (4/4) No reference
The verity of a documentary...with the narrative drive and emotional charge of a great thriller
By
Tim Robey
of Daily Telegraph (3/5) No reference
Faux-documentary masterpiece
By
Jeff Vice
of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (4/4) No reference
The film's ruminations about the meaning of terrorism and efforts to deal with it really resonate...
By
Terry Lawson
of Detroit Free Press (3/5) No reference
Pontecorvo essentially established the cinematic language that we recognize in recent dramas base...
Reviews of Battle of Algiers-Reissue, The
By
David Parkinson
of Empire Magazine (4/4) No reference
The most important piece of political filmmaking since Battleship Potemkin.
By
Owen Gleiberman
of Entertainment Weekly (3/5) No reference
You won't soon forget the face of Brahim Haggiag, who plays the revolutionary leader Ali as if he...
By
Jules Brenner
of filmcritic.com (3/5) No reference
a lesson in modern warfare
By
Donald Munro
of Fresno Bee (4/4) No reference
It takes about an eighth of a second for the film to seem all too relevant.
By
Peter Bradshaw
of Guardian [UK] (3/5) No reference
Whatever they made of The Battle of Algiers at the Pentagon, this is a must-see for everyone else...
By
Ella Taylor
of L.A. Weekly (4/4) No reference
A classic of politically engaged filmmaking.
Reviews of Battle of Algiers-Reissue, The
By
Kenneth Turan
of Los Angeles Times (3/5) No reference
The 'smell of truth' that Pontecorvo said he was after in this film has never left it, and likely...
By
Duane Dudek
of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (4/4) No reference
It remains a surprisingly instructive and cautionary lesson in the way that populist movements ca...
By
Ken Hanke
of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (3/5) No reference
While it's clear that the movie is very much a stacked deck, which invariably takes the Algerian ...
By
Marty Mapes
of Movie Habit (3/5) No reference
The Battle of Algiers still resonates today, and probably always will
By
Joshua Tanzer
of Offoffoff (3/5) No reference
As something similar happens to our soldiers in Iraq, it's a piece of blood-chilling horror every...
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (4/4) No reference
Staged with almost newsreel precision but presented with the punch of a great political thriller....
Reviews of Battle of Algiers-Reissue, The
By
Marc Mohan
of Oregonian (3/5) No reference
Its relevance to world events is just as clear today, more so, it seems, with each passing day.
By
Dennis Schwartz
of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (4/4) No reference
The same power it had 40 years ago is still evident.
By
Jay Antani
of Perihelion Journal (4/4) No reference
what really resonates on watching Algiers is its message about the widespread loss of civilian li...
By
Steven Rea
of Philadelphia Inquirer (3/5) No reference
Magnificent moviemaking.
By
Laura Clifford
of Reeling Reviews (3/5) No reference
gripping, relevant cinema...Irish film, "Bloody Sunday," borrowed its entire structure from "Algi...
By
Donald J. Levit
of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (4/4) No reference
'The Battle of Algiers' serves potent warning to those who envision warfare, or any Western-dicta...
Reviews of Battle of Algiers-Reissue, The
By
Mark Robison
of Reno Gazette-Journal (3/5) No reference
A thrilling movie with the unusual message that sometimes terrorism works.
By
Jack Garner
of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (4/4) No reference
A restored print of the landmark film has been re-released, and the superbly crafted, often-unner...
By
Sean Means
of Salt Lake Tribune (3/5) No reference
A chilling cinematic history lesson.
By
Jean Lowerison
of San Diego Metropolitan (4/4) No reference
The price of invasion has never been more poignantly spelled out than in this classic film.
By
David Elliott
of San Diego Union-Tribune (4/4) No reference
Perhaps the finest political film of the 1960s.
By
John Hartl
of Seattle Times (3/5) No reference
Few movies have done such an eloquent, evenhanded job of defining the conflict between colonialis...
Reviews of Battle of Algiers-Reissue, The
By
Dave Calhoun
of Time Out (4/4) No reference
Superb and unrivalled.
By
James Christopher
of Times [UK] (4/4) No reference
Brilliantly directed set-pieces and remarkable thronging crowd scenes make the film a masterpiece...
By
Philip Kemp
of Total Film (3/5) No reference
Forty years on, the film’s lost not a fraction of its power.
By
John A. Nesbit
of ToxicUniverse.com (3/5) No reference
plays like a mesmerizing action thriller that derives from the best traditions of Hollywood.
By
Ann Hornaday
of Washington Post (4/4) No reference
The greatness of The Battle of Algiers lies in its ability to embrace moral ambiguity without suc...
By
Prairie Miller
of WBAI Web Radio (3/5) No reference
The inspiration and blueprint for docudrama and ideological cinema worldwide.
Reviews of Battle of Algiers-Reissue, The
By
Lawrence Toppman
of Charlotte Observer (3/5) Not Reachable
What makes this Charlotte Film Society entry remarkable is that the Italian director sympathizes ...
By
Marta Barber
of Miami Herald (3/5) Not Reachable
An extraordinary movie that ruffled many feathers when it first came out. Almost 40 years later, ...
By
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
of St. Paul Pioneer Press (4/4) Not Reachable
Still powerful and upsetting because of its unpolished immediacy ... and because the movie declin...
By
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
of TheMovieChicks.com (4/4) Not Reachable
A fascinating movie in its own right, more relevant because of today's world situation.
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