The ensemble cast shared the best-actor award at the 2006 Cannes film festival -- and rightly so.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
This is a supreme example of how a filmmaker can make a work of fiction based on fact that, without didacticism or heavy-handed moralizing, leaves us feeling more connected not just with history but with what makes us human in the first place.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
As directed by Rachid Bouchareb, himself born in France to Algerian immigrants, "Days of Glory" is a kind of a North African "Saving Private Ryan," a taut, involving film that delivers all the things we look for in war movies and does so with intelligence and integrity.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Bouchareb's film helped shame the French government into raising pensions for more than 80,000 of these veterans. Here's that rare movie that really did change things. I'll be damned.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
A movingly acted, terrifically old-fashioned World War II picture rethought as a post-colonial rebuke.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Not only a stirring history lesson and an action-packed war film, Glory is also a ferocious statement about enduring discrimination that resounds today.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Dana Stevens
The performances are so passionate and the characters (even minor ones) so deftly sketched that it's impossible not to get swept up. You watch the battle scenes from behind your hands, just praying that these guys make it.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
It is a chronicle of courage and sacrifice, of danger and solidarity, of heroism and futility, told with power, grace and feeling and brought alive by first-rate acting. A damn good war movie.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
Is there anything new here? Honestly, not really. The content is the same, the plot the familiar litany of ordeals leavened by soapy interludes. But the fight that develops is taut, tough and extremely bitter; it's never showy in the grinding, big-movie Spielbergian way, but a portrait of the war's daily interface with hell in a very small space, as the four stand against a much larger unit.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Ella Taylor
Days of Glory is as moving as it is ingenuous, with each doomed character symbolizing a different response to the collective dilemma these men face as Arabs with divided loyalties.Read Full Review »
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