Apocalypse Now Redux Critic Reviews

The best film of 2001 was made in 1979.Read the full review

The film now seems both mellowed and --thanks in part to the most vibrant-looking prints in its 22-year history -- revitalized.Read the full review

One of the great films of all time. It shames modern Hollywood's timidity. To watch it is to feel yourself lifted up to the heights where the cinema can take you, but so rarely does.Read the full review

This is the untamed Apocalypse that Coppola envisioned in 1979 before money and mental pressures made him fear he had created something too long, too weird and too morally demanding for the masses.Read the full review

Remains a majestic explosion of pure cinema. It's a hallucinatory poem of fear, projecting, in its scale and spirit, a messianic vision of human warfare stretched to the flashpoint of technological and moral breakdown.Read the full review

In spite of its limited perspective on Vietnam, its churning, term-paperish exploration of Conrad and the near incoherence of its ending, (it) is a great movie. It grows richer and stranger with each viewing, and the restoration of scenes left in the cutting room two decades ago has only added to its sublimity.Read the full review

A weightier, more nuanced and fulsome experience than the film the world has known up to now.Read the full review

Whatever thematic clarity the added footage may confer is prosaic or didactic and intrusive; this stuff hit the cutting-room floor the first time around for good reason.Read the full review

The more you see of Apocalypse, the more obvious its triumphs AND mistakes.Read the full review