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100
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Critic Score

79
Critics' score based on 39 reviews.
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Eastwood's two-film project is one of the most visionary of all efforts to depict the reality and meaning of battle.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

It is one of the year's best films and perhaps the finest modern film about World War II.Full Review

Claudia Puig
USA Today

As he did in "Unforgiven," "Mystic River" and "Million Dollar Baby," Eastwood handles this nuanced material with aplomb, giving every element of this complex story just the weight it deserves. The director's lean dispassion, his increased willingness to be strongly emotional while retaining an instinctive restraint, continues to astonish.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers does a most difficult and brave thing and does it brilliantly. It is a movie about a concept. Not just any concept but the shop-worn and often wrong-headed idea of "heroism."Full Review

Kirk Honeycutt
The Hollywood Reporter

Stands with the best movies of this young century and the old one that preceded it: It's passionate, honest, unflinching, gripping, and it pays respects. The flag raising on Iwo might have indeed become a pseudo-event as it was processed for goals, but there was nothing pseudo about the courage of the men who did it.Full Review

Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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