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Excellent movie, understated but nevertheless powerfully makes its point. Great background music by Philip Glass that provides valid emotional... t. Full Review

May 26,2010
drarthurwells

GREAT MOVIE ABOUT THE REALITY OF WHAT WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENJING TO THE SOLDIERS WHO ACTUALLY HAD TO FIGHT THE WAR. PERSONALLY FELT BY ANYONE WHO WAS... N ACTUAL SOLDIER - NOT AN ACTOR. Full Review

July 16,2009
Jas3Barnes
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Unlike "Saving Private Ryan" and other dramatizations based on D-Day, Overlord is an intimate film, one that focuses closely on Tom Beddoes (Brian Stirner), who enters the British army, goes through basic training and is one of the first ashore on D-Day. (Reviewed in 2004)Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Like its hero, who is brave without a trace of bravado, Overlord is unusually quiet and thoughtful. The scale and ambition of combat movies has usually been epic, but this one is disarmingly lyrical and subjective.Full Review

Dana Stevens
The New York Times

It's still a feat of period filmmaking. More than that, Overlord's revivification of a wasteland Europe offers up a powerful whip lesson for the postwar complacent: that the waging of war, even this most romanticized of conflicts, means bringing a corpse-mountain hell to someone's home neighborhood.Full Review

Michael Atkinson
Village Voice

Though made 31 years after D-Day, the dramatic scenes have the period look of a '40s movie, which links them perfectly with the stunning archival footage.Full Review

Jack Mathews
New York Daily News

US director Stuart Cooper gives it the right understated, unheroic feel. (Review of Original Release)Full Review

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