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As profound and intelligent as it is moving, and that makes this memorable motion picture one of 1996's best.Full Review

James Berardinelli
ReelViews

Intelligent, involving and serious, it is as honestly emotional as Hollywood allows itself to get, a story of the search for wartime truth whose own concern for the genuine makes all the difference.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

Denzel Washington is riveting.Full Review

Peter Stack
San Francisco Chronicle

The end of the film understandably lays on the emotion a little heavily, but until then Courage Under Fire has been a fascinating emotional and logistical puzzle--almost a courtroom movie, with the desert as the courtroom.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

In Washington's haunted eyes, in the stunning cinematography of Roger Deakins (Fargo) that plunges into the mad flare of combat, in the plot that deftly turns a whodunit into a meditation on character and in Zwick's persistent questioning of authority, Courage Under Fire honors its subject and its audience.Full Review

Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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