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The results bear witness to a time when sacrifice was bleached of everything but itself.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe

This restored 35mm print, now in art theaters around the country, may be 37 years old, but it is the best foreign film of the year.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

It's a white-knuckler all the way, with most of that tension coming from the smallest facial expressions exchanged in uneasy silence between compatriots who knew what they were getting into, but were nevertheless unprepared for the moral and emotional fallout of their patriotic actions.Full Review

Jami Bernard
New York Daily News

As someone who was part of the Resistance, Melville knew enough to neither melodramatically glorify nor cynically devalue the heroism he presents. This is people doing what needed to be done, Army of Shadows says, this is the way it was.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

From the first sight of German soldiers goose-stepping past the Arc de Triomphe to a postscript that spells out the fate of characters whose moral confusion is all too real, Army of Shadows is a movie of its time -- and ours.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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