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One doesn't come away from it with any sense of what the victory cost in human terms.Full Review

Stephen Hunter
Washington Post

If ever there was a movie that could cause even the most restless sleeper to fall into a deep slumber, this is it. Full Review

James Berardinelli
ReelViews

Maxwell has populated his film with paragons rather than people. Worse, they talk and talk and talk; this film is in danger of talking itself to death before the Union and the Confederacy are able to decimate each other.Full Review

Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times

Gods and Generals is American history transformed into a museum movie, consistently making the flawed human characters at the heart of the Civil War into flawless figures Olympian in their statuesque remoteness.Full Review

Robert Koehler
Variety

You don't envy the three soldiers who get shot for desertion, but you do identify with their desire to flee.Full Review

Mike Clark
USA Today
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