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Variety
An intense, schematic, superbly made Vietnam War drama. Full Review
Dave Kehr
Chicago Tribune
The film has undeniable power, but it's an unusual and unsettling power, a product of a collision between red-hot material and the cool serenity with which Kubrick observes and accepts it. [26 June 1987] Full Review
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
The most eloquent and exacting vision of the war to date... Inspired with technique rather than overblown with it, Kubrick, the filmmaker's filmmaker, lays one on you. Full Review
Judy Stone
San Francisco Chronicle
The concluding image of men silhouetted against the dying flares of explosives, as they march to the raucous refrain of the Mickey Mouse Club theme, is masterly, but leaves a viewer curiously discomfited. Whereas "Platoon" shattered civilian complacency about that war, Full Metal Jacket is merely numbing. [26 June 1987] Full Review
Julie Salamon
Wall Street Journal
By most standards of conventional film narrative, this movie is a mess. [25 June, 1987, p.22(E)] Full Review
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