Enemy at the Gates

Any flaws in execution pale against those moments when the film brings history to vital life.Read Full Review »

This is spectacle cinema made with individual flair; maybe someone in Hollywood will notice that it's still possible.Read Full Review »

It's remarkable, a war story told as a chess game where the loser not only dies, but goes by necessity to an unmarked grave.Read Full Review »

Enemy at the Gates has its deficiencies, but the first-rate cast is not among them.Read Full Review »

It's too circumscribed and polite for the story it's telling, curiously deficient in the unexpected.Read Full Review »

Annaud's epic might have worked better dramatically as a smaller, more focused picture. The best scenes simply involve Law and Harris playing sneaky professional games (less cat-and-mouse than cat-and-cat) with each other.Read Full Review »

As long as you focus on the central sniper-versus-sniper story -- and not the dreadful mishmash of jarring accents or the film's unconvincing romantic subplot or any of the personal relationships -- you'll enjoy it.Read Full Review »

Law, sexy and crafty as ever, and here with a flinty innocence, proves again he has the star-quality goods.Read Full Review »

The one valuable prize for audiences in this war pic Cracker Jack box is Jude Law. Once again the talented Mr. Law makes more of a role than most movies know what to do with.Read Full Review »

Still, if the movie is mediocre, the history it represents is not. For that correction to our collective Western amnesia, then, Annaud deserves some special award.Read Full Review »