If it has power now, it's for Larry's commanding soldier-king and for his audacious sub-Brechtian adapatation, which scythes the text to reveal the heart - notably in the extraordinary, moving, pre-battle 'A little touch of Harry' exposing cold fear's co
– Wally Hammond,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
The color, the sets, the expanse and the imaginative quality of the filming are unexcelled.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
9 Jul 2008
fresh:
One can pick plenty of bones with Laurence Olivier's direction of the Shakespeare play, but this 1945 film is still a powerful production from many standpoints.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
9 Jul 2008
fresh:
The movies have produced one of their rare great works of art.
– James Agee,
TIME Magazine,
29 Aug 2012
fresh:
While definitely athletic, pageant-minded and somewhat recognizable after all of the war dramas that have come out since Elizabethan times, no movie has given a more poignant impression of men in battle or been so cutting about the waste and folly of war.