Saving Private Ryan (1998) Critic Reviews

An overwhelming experience.Read the full review

The rawest, most sustained screen portrayal of 20th century combat.Read the full review

This film embodies ideas. After the immediate experience begins to fade, the implications remain and grow.Read the full review

An excellent movie, as effective in battle scenes as it is in that of soldiers ruminating on an Edith Piaf song.Read the full review

A searingly visceral combat picture, Steven Spielberg’s third World War II drama is arguably second to none as a vivid, realistic and bloody portrait of armed conflict.Read the full review

Steven Spielberg's soberly magnificent new war film, the second such pinnacle in a career of magical versatility, has been made in the same spirit of urgent communication. It is the ultimate devastating letter home.Read the full review

Searing, heartbreaking, so intense it turns your body into a single tube of clenched muscle, this is simply the greatest war movie ever made, and one of the great American movies.Read the full review

A movie of staggering virtuosity and raw lyric power, a masterpiece of terror, chaos, blood, and courage.Read the full review

For those who are willing to brave the movie's shocking and unforgettable images, Saving Private Ryan offers a singular motion picture experience.Read the full review