Flags of Our Fathers Reviews

Movie Reviews

• riveting and deeply affecting

  by Pam Grady [Reel ]

• more complex and subtle than Spielberg's but somewhat less satisfying

  by Ed Blank [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ]

• manages to pull off the dubious double whammy of being painfully didactic and emotionally unaffecting

  by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine ]

• intermittently fascinating but ultimately disappointing effort

  by Ray Greene [Boxoffice Magazine ]

• extraordinary World War II drama

  by Jack Mathews [New York Daily News ]

• an unflinching and unromanticized war story

  by Duane Dudek [The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ]

• an honorable and rather plodding movie

  Review rate : B- by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• a film that is both overlong and emotionally numb

  by David Mercier [FilmJudge ]
• Reviewed by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune ]
• Reviewed by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]
• Reviewed by John Urbancich [Sun Newspapers of Cleveland ]
• Reviewed by Kirk Honeycutt [The Hollywood Reporter ]
• Reviewed by Kenneth Turan [Los Angeles Times ]
• Reviewed by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]
• Reviewed by Bill Muller [The Arizona Republic ]
• Reviewed by Todd McCarthy [Variety ]
• Reviewed by Barry Paris [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ]
• Reviewed by Jason Ferguson [Orlando Weekly ]

Reader's Reviews

How many stars? 1 [Very Bad] 2 3 4 5 [Excellent]

   

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