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When a re-release combines great artistic power with lasting political interest, celluloid junkies are not the only ones who ought to be excited.
A GREAT MOVIE!”
– Stuart Klawans, The New York Times
“BREATHTAKING! STUNNINGLY PROVOCATIVE! ELECTRIFYINGLY TIMELY!
Its anatomy of terror remains unsurpassed!”
– Peter Rainer, New York Magazine
“A MASTERPIECE! MOVES LIKE A THRILLER!
Its ASTONISHING IMMEDIACY anticipates the artfully raw you-are-there vérité
of Bloody Sunday and Black Hawk Down.”
– J. Hoberman, The American Prospect
“THE BEST MOVIE I SAW ALL YEAR – THEN, IN 1968, AND NOW!”
– Stephen Hunter, The Washington Post
“Pontecorvo’s fierce piece of 1965 agitprop is
suddenly HOT HOT HOT…
No movie so effectively squeezes you into the shoes of grassroots combatants…
ASTONISHLY TIMELY AND AN ELECTION YEAR MUST-SEE!”
– Michael Atkinson, Village
Voice
“A MASTERPIECE! Surely the Most Harrowing Political Epic Ever!"
– Philip Gourevitch, The
New Yorker
BRILLIANT! UNFORGETTABLE! Mesmerizing Pace and Immediacy!”
– Michael Wilmington, Chicago
Tribune
“PULSES WITH ENERGY! As Urgent, Intense, Prescient as Ever!"
– Ann Hornaday, The
Washington Post
AN EXTRAORDINARY FILM! A TAUT AND SUSPENSEFUL THRILLER!”
– David Sterritt, Christian
Science Monitor
“ASTONISHING! A Political Thriller of Unmatched Realism!”
– A.O. Scott, The
New York Times
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