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The Battle of Algiers is a thinking person's action film in which there are winners -- but no heroes.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe

It's a masterpiece.Full Review

Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

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.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

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.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly

A classic of politically engaged filmmaking, based on a book by Saadi Yacef, a former FLN leader who also produced the picture and played a version of himself.Full Review

Ella Taylor
L.A. Weekly
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