This restored 35mm print, now in art theaters around the country, may be 37 years old, but it is the best foreign film of the year.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Manohla Dargis
This film, which was never released in America and will now be making its way across the country in limited release, has been immaculately restored and features new subtitles. You can get lost in the blackness of its heart and its shadows. You might never come back.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
It's a strange enough film, yet weirdly great. No movie has quite gotten the clammy weight of fear, the sense of hopelessness that would necessarily haunt underground workers. To see it is to sweat through your underclothes. It'll melt the pep out of your weekend.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
Infused with the bleak romanticism of Melville's gangster movies ("Le Samouraï," "Bob le Flambeur"), and deepened by his own experiences in the Resistance, this hard-bitten tribute to freedom fighters makes most current movies look flabby and undisciplined. Don't miss it.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
From the first sight of German soldiers goose-stepping past the Arc de Triomphe to a postscript that spells out the fate of characters whose moral confusion is all too real, Army of Shadows is a movie of its time -- and ours.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
As someone who was part of the Resistance, Melville knew enough to neither melodramatically glorify nor cynically devalue the heroism he presents. This is people doing what needed to be done, Army of Shadows says, this is the way it was.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
The picture was made in 1969 and is only now being released in the U.S., in a beautiful restoration supervised by original cinematographer Pierre Lhomme.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
The results bear witness to a time when sacrifice was bleached of everything but itself.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Not just one of the great films of the '60s but one of the great films, period -- and the chance to discover it at the beginning of the 21st century, in an era when we think we've seen it all, is an unquantifiable privilege.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
It's here that Melville fully achieved his notion of the sublime, applying "Le Samouraï's" "empty" compositions and near theatrical blocking, as well as its methodical suspense, cosmic fatalism, and sense of grim solitude, to a subject far closer to his heart, namely his own World War II experiences.Read Full Review »
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