The Battle of Algiers Critic Reviews
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The Battle of Algiers is a thinking person's action film in which there are winners -- but no heroes.Read the full review
Achieves its success through a combination of attitude and technique, uniting, to exceptional effect, a way of viewing the world morally while looking at it physically.Read the full review
Nearly four decades ago, Pontecorvo anatomized the very form of modern terrorist warfare: the hidden cells, the cultish leaders, the brutish cycle of attack and counterattack.Read the full review
The greatness of The Battle of Algiers lies in its ability to embrace moral ambiguity without succumbing to it.Read the full review
It's a dedicated effort with importance as a 'document.' (Review of original release)Read the full review
It's back in a handsome new black-and-white print, and it's still powerful stuff -- you can see why Pauline Kael wrote that it was "probably the only film that has ever made middle-class audiences believe in the necessity of bombing innocent people."Read the full review
