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Fighter (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 23
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
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 retrace Wiener's escape from Prague... [More]
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Reviews for Fighter
'A humanistic piece about how the Holocaust, fascism, and the Second World War left permanent emotional scars on everyone who lived through it.'
10/09/03
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.
04/09/02
Top Critic What unfolds onscreen is remarkable: The passions and arguments of the past are resurrected in the present.
02/26/02
Top Critic 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.
02/10/02
Reminds us that different people react to madness -- in this case, the Holocaust -- in different ways.
01/24/02
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Top Critic 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.
11/27/01
Top Critic 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.
11/26/01
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The fight and its aftermath don't provide an especially satisfying conclusion to the piece.
10/27/01
Even though I'm not sure it should have even been made, the final product is at least emotionally impressive and absolutely debate inspiring.
10/25/01
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.
10/11/01
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.
10/11/01
Top Critic Shapes up as one of the great documentaries of this year, or any other.
09/18/01
Top Critic Historically and emotionally potent -- as well as the funniest movie of the summer, thanks mostly to Lustig's understated but pungent wit.
08/24/01
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