Fighter (2001)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:23
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.3/10
Theatrical Release:Aug 24, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: FIGHTER follows two friends, Jan Wiener, to whom the title refers, and Arnost Lustig, a writer--both in their seventies, and both exiles from Communist Czechoslovakia now living in America--as they... [More]
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Reviews for Fighter
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'A humanistic piece about how the Holocaust, fascism, and the Second World War left permanent emotional scars on everyone who lived through it.' Full Review |
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Enthralling. Full Review |
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No larger aspect of what is in this film can be new to us; but seeing it in this old-friends perspective gives all of it, familiar and new, a novel effect. Full Review |
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3/4 |
What unfolds onscreen is remarkable: The passions and arguments of the past are resurrected in the present. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Bar-Lev's intimacy with his subjects is remarkable, and it allows him to reveal how these men have managed to become and remain friends. Full Review |
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Reminds us that different people react to madness -- in this case, the Holocaust -- in different ways. Full Review |
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Spending time with these guys is an invigorating treat. Full Review |
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Even if these guys hadn't each gone through so much strife and real tragedy in their life, they're just interesting right now to see them going back and forth.
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3/4 |
Less a document of wartime experience than of the mentality one needs to maintain in order to be a fighter, and the danger of attacking, however benignly, cherished beliefs.
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It's a rarity these days: a film that will leave you thinking. Full Review |
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The fight and its aftermath don't provide an especially satisfying conclusion to the piece. Full Review |
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Even though I'm not sure it should have even been made, the final product is at least emotionally impressive and absolutely debate inspiring. Full Review |
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Not surprisingly, it's moving; but it's also endlessly engaging, uproariously funny at moments, informative, and eventually touching in ways one might not have expected.
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A tale of a remarkable friendship between two wise, witty men. Full Review |
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Even when the bickering diminishes the impact of the story, Wiener himself makes Fighter another interesting story to come out of World War II atrocities. Full Review |
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A fascinating real-life narrative documentary of two men who become friends in America after having taken two different paths to survive the Holocaust that consumed the rest of their families. Full Review |
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Shapes up as one of the great documentaries of this year, or any other. Full Review |
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A fascinating meditation on the nature of heroism and survival. Full Review |
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Historically and emotionally potent -- as well as the funniest movie of the summer, thanks mostly to Lustig's understated but pungent wit. Full Review |
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