This film embodies ideas. After the immediate experience begins to fade, the implications remain and grow.Read Full Review »
100
USA Today: Mike Clark
The rawest, most sustained screen portrayal of 20th century combat.Read Full Review »
100
Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
Searing, heartbreaking, so intense it turns your body into a single tube of clenched muscle, this is simply the greatest war movie ever made, and one of the great American movies.Read Full Review »
100
The New York Times: Elvis Mitchell
Steven Spielberg's soberly magnificent new war film, the second such pinnacle in a career of magical versatility, has been made in the same spirit of urgent communication. It is the ultimate devastating letter home.Read Full Review »
100
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
A movie of staggering virtuosity and raw lyric power, a masterpiece of terror, chaos, blood, and courage.Read Full Review »
100
Time: Richard Schickel
A war film that, entirely aware of its genre's conventions, transcends them as it transcends the simplistic moralities that inform its predecessors, to take the high, morally haunting ground.Read Full Review »
100
ReelViews: James Berardinelli
For those who are willing to brave the movie's shocking and unforgettable images, Saving Private Ryan offers a singular motion picture experience.Read Full Review »
90
Slate: David Edelstein
What Steven Spielberg has accomplished in Saving Private Ryan is to make violence terrible again.Read Full Review »
80
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
A startling reminder of exactly how spectacular a director Spielberg can be when he allows himself to be challenged by a subject (in this case World War II) that pushes against his limits.Read Full Review »
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