Overlord [re-release]
Janus Films | Release Date: July 14, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
88
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 8 Critic Reviews
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8
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
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) Read full review
90
The New York TimesDana Stevens
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. Read full review
90
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
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. Read full review
88
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not credited)
The overriding themes of the film are never broadly stated but are subtly revealed, and the horror and reality of war are quietly played out on both the human and panoramic levels with disturbing effect. Read full review
88
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
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. Read full review
80
VarietyStaff (Not credited)
US director Stuart Cooper gives it the right understated, unheroic feel. (Review of Original Release) Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Overlord feels like a small but vivid tragedy inside an epic container. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen Johnson
Overlord is an ambitious, important experiment that has come to light after three decades of neglect. Read full review
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