One doesn't come away from it with any sense of what the victory cost in human terms.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
If ever there was a movie that could cause even the most restless sleeper to fall into a deep slumber, this is it.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
Maxwell has populated his film with paragons rather than people. Worse, they talk and talk and talk; this film is in danger of talking itself to death before the Union and the Confederacy are able to decimate each other.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The kind of movie beloved by people who never go to the movies, because they are primarily interested in something else--the Civil War, for example--and think historical accuracy is a virtue instead of an attribute.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
It may not be the worst war epic ever made - that probably would be "Battlefield Earth" -- but it's darn close to being an unqualified disaster of that magnitude.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
You don't envy the three soldiers who get shot for desertion, but you do identify with their desire to flee.Read Full Review »
Less a movie than a meticulously, tediously accurate Civil War reenactment committed to celluloid.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
A lumpy three-and-a-half-hour glob of Civil War history.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
What the filmmakers fail to recognize is that history on the page is quite different from what it needs to be onscreen, namely alive and visceral.Read Full Review »
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