:: Critics on 'ARMY OF SHADOWS' ::


	• MELVILLE ON "ARMY OF SHADOWS " • CREDITS • DESCRIPTION • BROCHURE • TRAILER • AM NEW YORK BOSTON GLOBE BOSTON HERALD BOXOFFICE CHICAGO READER CHICAGO SUN TIMES CHICAGO TRIBUNE DAILY NEWS EUROPEAN WEEKLY FILM COMMENT LA TIMES THE NEW REPUBLIC NEW YORK OBSERVER NEW YORK POST NEW YORK TIMES THE NEW YORKER NEWSWEEK PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER PREMIERE SALON.COM SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER SEATTLE TIMES THE STRANGER TIME TIME OUT NEW YORK VILLAGE VOICE back to top back to top	What the Critics Say About ARMY OF SHADOWS
		ONE OF THE TOP FIVE FILMS OF 2006! (click here for list of critics) “A+ ! A MASTERPIECE! ROCK HARD GREATNESS!” – Michael Sragow, BALTIMORE SUN " ! ONE OF THE GREAT WWII EPICS! DON’T MISS!” – J. Carr, AM NEW YORK " ! A RIVETING HISTORICAL FILM NOIR!” – BOXOFFICE “AN EVENT! PERSONAL AND POWERFUL!” – Ty Burr, BOSTON GLOBE “A CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION!” – James Verniere, Boston Herald “ A GREAT FILM…MELVILLE’S BEST… – Jonathan Rosenbaum, CHICAGO READER “THE BEST FOREIGN FILM OF THE YEAR” – Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN TIMES “A MASTERPIECE…SUPERB… an undoubted labor of love…classically constructed and immaculately shot” – Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE " ! A WHITE-KNUCKLER ALL THE WAY! Has more to tell us about the internal toll of war and taking a stand than anything Hollywood has produced! – Jami Bernard, NY DAILY NEWS “MELVILLE’S SIGNATURE WORK And certainly one of the great films of the sixties” – Amy Taubin, FILM COMMENT “Masterfully made, with no detail unattended” – Kenneth Turan, LA TIMES “A RESTORATION OF BEAUTY THAT DESERVES TO BE SEEN!” – Stanley Kauffmann, THE NEW REPUBLIC “AWESOME! A TENSE, UNDERSTATED THRILLER!” – NEW YORK MAGAZINE "Lovers of cinema should reach for their fedoras, turn up the collars of their coats, and sneak to this picture through a mist of rain… FOR THE FIRST, AND MAYBE THE ONLY, TIME THIS YEAR, YOU ARE IN THE HANDS OF A MASTER.” – Anthony Lane, THE NEW YORKER “EXTRAORDINARY! My greatest movie treat and surprise this year” – David Ansen, NEWSWEEK “A rare work of art that thrills the senses and the mind… Worthy of that overused superlative MASTERPIECE! – Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES " ! AN INTIMATE EPIC! EXCRUCIATINGLY TENSE AND NEVER LESS THAN HEARTBREAKINGLY HUMAN! ALREADY ON MY YEAR'S 10 BEST LIST!" – Glenn Kenny, PREMIERE “ ! NOTHING SHORT OF A MASTERPIECE! A RESTORATION THAT SHOWS EVERY SHOT TO BE A WORK OF ART.” – Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER “10 OUT OF 10! A MASTERPIECE OF WORLD CINEMA!” – Jack Garner, ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE "A LOST MASTERPIECE... NOT JUST ONE OF THE GREAT FILMS OF THE 60s, BUT ONE OF THE GREAT FILMS - PERIOD. The chance to discover it at the beginning of the 21st century, in an era when we think we've seen it all, is an unquantifiable privilege!” – Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM “GRADE A! ONE OF THE MOVIE YEAR’S MAJOR EVENTS!” – William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER “( !} AS CLOSE TO A MASTERPIECE AS ANY FILM YOU’RE LIKELY TO SEE THIS YEAR!” – Jeff Shannon, SEATTLE TIMES “A DAMN NEAR UNIMPEACHABLE MOVIE! Serious, complex, and relentlessly intense.” – Annie Wagner, THE STRANGER "ONE OF MELVILLES'S GREATEST!" – Richard Schickel, TIME “MELVILLE’S CAREER-CAPPING EPIC! Moving from rainy prison camps through sun-baked Marseilles and blitzed London to the bleak windswept towns of northern France, Army of Shadows sustains an atmosphere of total paranoia.” – J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
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