The Ritchie Boys
Menemsha Films | Release Date: October 13, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
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Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
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The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
A fascinating documentary with a high entertainment quotient thanks to the fact that the film's surviving subjects prove to be some of the most articulate, not to mention wittiest, octogenarians around. Read full review
80
Film ThreatJames Wegg
Any thinking person – no matter what political stripe or moral belief – needs to see this important film then try to apply its valuable lessons to today's, still, unstable planet. Read full review
80
VarietyRobert Koehler
Christian Bauer's engaging The Ritchie Boys captures the excitement, ironies and "good war" feel of World War II. Read full review
80
Village VoiceDrew Tillman
These are men who know of what they speak; they're also eloquent, erudite, and funny as hell. Read full review
80
The New York TimesNeil Genzlinger
Those whose tolerance of Greatest Generation war stories isn't exhausted, not to mention those who still thrive on them, will find the group of men who called themselves the Ritchie Boys good company. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Still witty and eloquent, these cerebral boys became the haunted men who do their best to share their experiences with us, even as they know we'll never truly understand. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The visual monotony of talking heads and stock footage is interrupted occasionally by the spectral charcoal drawings of veteran Si Lewen, though his art is used to full advantage only when he describes the liberation of Buchenwald. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
This is a film with a story we have not seen before, a story about American troops so unusual it needed a German director to ferret it out. Read full review
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