All Quiet on the Western Front Reviews
Slant Magazine
The rawness of the audio eradicates any lingering notion that war is romantic or exciting, and at times suggests the very battered eardrums of those engaged in combat.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Time Out New York
The despair-and the artistry-is breathtaking.
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| Original Score: 5/5
7M Pictures
Took an opportunity to question warfare and its civility long before the war protest film became popular in the 70s. It's dated, obviously, but still powerful.
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| Original Score: 4/5
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
A movie of timeless relevance and effects. Lew Ayres would never again equal his performance in this film version of the well-known anti-war novel.
TIME Magazine
Top CriticFrom such grisly materials the popular cinema is rarely drawn. The film is monumental in the courage that risked its manufacture.
Empire Magazine
Despite a little dating around the edges this is a truly superb example of its genre and a cinema classic.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Film4
A a film that remains one of the most powerful screen comments on the horrors of war.
A harrowing, gruesome, morbid tale of war.
Deserves its reputation as a classic.
House Next Door
The film's centerpiece battle runs only eight minutes, yet its hellfire feels twice as long as Saving Private Ryan's D-Day onslaught.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The film made Ayres a star.
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| Original Score: A
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
...a bitter indictment of the insulated powers that induce naive young men to kill one another.
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| Original Score: 94/100
Guardian [UK]
An ambitious epic of tremendous sweep and scope.
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| Original Score: 4/5
EmanuelLevy.Com
This uncompromising drama makes a bleak statement of war fighting in trenches, stressing the inanity of WWI (or any war) for both sides; perhaps the most memorable moment is the one in which Lew Ayres reaches out for a butterfly to disastrous effect.
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| Original Score: A-
Oscar Guy
There are few war films that can match the brilliance of Lewis Milestone's anti-war classic. It's a feast for the ears with a passionate soul.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Time Out
The film's strength now derives less from its admittedly powerful but highly simplistic utterances about war as waste, than from a generally excellent set of performances (Ayres especially) and an almost total reluctance to follow normal plot structure.
Filmcritic.com
Heavy stuff, especially for 1930.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Kansas City Kansan
Classic early talkie is still anti-war effective.
Comment | Original Score: 5/5
Film Journal International
Classic anti-war drama
Comment | Original Score: 5/5
