Under Sidney Franklin's watchful supervision and William Wyler's masterly direction the story has become the most stirring, heart-clutching picture of our times.
– Kate Cameron,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb 2015
fresh:
A poignant story of the joys and sorrows, the humor and pathos of middle-class family life in wartime England.
– Herb Golden,
Variety,
28 Jan 2008
fresh:
The most famous and perhaps most effective propaganda film of World War II.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
12 Dec 2006
rotten:
Classic soap opera in which good old British understatement has a field day, everybody is frightfully nice, and sentimentality is wrapped up in yards of tasteful gloss.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
Certainly it is the finest film yet made about the present war, and a most exalting tribute to the British, who have taken it gallantly.