Bloody Sunday Critic Reviews
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A stunning work, revisiting controversial events with journalistic objectivity and a meticulous eye for detail.Read the full review
An extraordinary film ... that's impossible to dismiss or leave unmoved.Read the full review
A great achievement: tense and passionate, a film that one feels not just emotionally but also physically.Read the full review
It's a mad cycle of arrogance and despair, and Bloody Sunday etches it onto your nervous system.Read the full review
The level of accomplishment in the filmmaking is overwhelming.Read the full review
Once positions hardened, tragedy was all but inevitable, and Bloody Sunday" does the spirit of that awful day full and unforgettable justice.Read the full review
One view of what happened that day, a very effective one. And as an act of filmmaking, it is superb: A sense of immediate and present reality permeates every scene.Read the full review
The film is conducted in a delirious cinema-verite style; most of what you see has a brutal, you-are-there immediacy. You're not merely watching history, you're engulfed by it.Read the full review
At its best, Bloody Sunday produces the same chilling illusion of history writ large, clearly detailing the strategies of both sides, then blankly observing the conflict through unadorned, newsreel camera stock and the precise orchestration of large-scale chaos.Read the full review
As a terrifying example of what can happen when too many angry people are crowded into too small a space, it's a gripper.Read the full review
