Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award7 wins & 4 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
This masterpiece still packs a wallop, though nothing in it is as simple as it may first appear; audiences are still arguing about the final sequence, which has been characterized as everything from a sentimental cop-out to the ultimate cynical twist.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
8 May 2007
rotten:
While the subject is well handled and enacted in a series of outstanding characterizations, it seems dated and makes for grim screen fare.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
8 May 2007
fresh:
The sardonic rhetoric may be laid on a little heavily at times, but the movie is blunt and scornfully brilliant.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
26 Mar 2013
fresh:
Kirk Douglas gives one of his finest performances as the intelligent and courageous Col. Dax.
– Crosby Day,
Orlando Sentinel,
26 Mar 2013
fresh:
More than 20 years after Mr. Cobb's novel was first published, Mr. Kubrick reminded us that human folly is rarely checked for long. A half-century on, he is still right.