Armadillo
Lorber Films | Release Date: April 15, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
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Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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100
SalonAndrew O'HehirApr 14, 2011
It's a brilliant work of cinema, a nonfiction film as intense and visceral as any drama, and an emotional and moral experience that feels horrifying and exhilarating at almost the same moment. Read full review
91
Portland OregonianShawn LevyApr 29, 2011
The combination of immediacy and intimacy in Armadillo is exceedingly rare. Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottApr 14, 2011
The achievement of this film is to forestall and complicate easy judgment. You emerge shaken and bothered, which may sound like a reason not to see the movie. It is actually the opposite. Read full review
80
Time OutEric HynesApr 12, 2011
It's a sickening but stunning portrait of combat that looks past notions of bravery or brutality, guilt or innocence, to bear witness to a thoroughly besieged humanity. Read full review
80
Village VoiceMark HolcombApr 12, 2011
While much of Armadillo echoes last year's "Restrepo," the unprecedented access of director Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skree reveals the alternating waves of frontline tedium and terror with fresh immediacy. Read full review
80
EmpirePhil de SemlyenApr 12, 2011
Moving, complex and brutal, it's an outstanding film about men at war. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettApr 12, 2011
While the men are Danish, there is a universality to their story and a vitality in the filmmaking that should see the documentary in demand around the world. Read full review
80
VarietyLeslie FelperinApr 12, 2011
If nothing else, Armadillo proves just how well "The Hurt Locker" captured the mixture of boredom, fear, brutality and locker-room machismo that makes up the day-to-day routine of a frontline soldier. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Guy DixonJul 1, 2011
Armadillo is a work of stunningly difficult filmmaking, going out on patrol with the soldiers and diving for cover amid the pop of bullets and blasts of artillery. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasApr 14, 2011
For their part, the Danes are either having more of an adventure or covering up their trauma with chest-thumping braggadocio; almost to a man, they're ready to come back for more. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisJun 23, 2011
Metz is another artist more interested in war's side effects than combat itself, although he and his crew are embedded for battle. Read full review
60
Boxoffice MagazineVadim RizovApr 19, 2011
With perspective firmly confined to the soldiers, Armadillo has inevitably invited many comparisons to "Restrepo," last year's Oscar nominated documentary about Western forces trying to gain ground in Afghanistan. But "Restrepo" is by far the better film. Read full review
50
New York PostV.A. MusettoApr 15, 2011
There's little new in Armadillo. Read full review
50
MovielineStephanie ZacharekApr 14, 2011
Armadillo tells us lots of things we shouldn't be so naïve as to think we don't already know. Maybe we need to see these things again and again, just so we don't lose sight of the costs and risks of the wars in which American and European soldiers are currently engaged. Read full review
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