Gillo Pontecorvo's epic of revolutionary fervour has dimmed not an iota since it was first released in 1966.
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05/11/07
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Battle of Algiers (1966)
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Reviews Counted:68
Fresh:67
Rotten:1
Average Rating:9/10
Consensus: A powerful, documentary-like examination of the response to an occupying force, The Battle of Algiers hasn't aged a bit since its release in 1966.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Box Office: $188,820
Synopsis: Gillo Pontecorvo's presents a harrowing, documentary-style depiction of the Algerian's people's struggle to liberate themselves from France between 1954 and 1962. The film creates a stunning... [More]
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Reviews for Battle of Algiers
The greatness of The Battle of Algiers lies in its ability to embrace moral ambiguity without succumbing to it.
01/09/04
The verity of a documentary...with the narrative drive and emotional charge of a great thriller
02/11/04
It looks beyond any question to be an original documentary film, put together from newsreel footage, complemented by staged dramatic scenes.
10/26/03
A fascinating movie in its own right, more relevant because of today's world situation.
05/14/04
Still powerful and upsetting because of its unpolished immediacy ... and because the movie declines to judge the terrorists' actions.
03/25/04
An epic of intimate objectivity.
05/13/04
Top Critic"The Battle Of Algiers" is a one of a kind masterpiece of pure cinema that you will never forget.
04/26/09
Gripping and technically dazzling documentary-style drama.
03/25/04
Superb and unrivalled.
01/26/06
Perhaps the finest political film of the 1960s.
03/19/04
The most important piece of political filmmaking since Battleship Potemkin.
05/11/07
Like all masterpieces, it speaks to later ages as powerfully and intelligently as to its own.
01/08/04
The same power it had 40 years ago is still evident.
05/24/04
Pontecorvo has nearly accomplished the impossible: to make an epic film that convinces the viewer he is watching the real thing.
10/26/03
'The Battle of Algiers' serves potent warning to those who envision warfare, or any Western-dictated settlement, in areas so hungry and so foreign.
11/12/03
It takes about an eighth of a second for the film to seem all too relevant.
05/13/04
It remains a surprisingly instructive and cautionary lesson in the way that populist movements can burn parent states down to their grass roots.
04/01/04
A classic of politically engaged filmmaking.
01/08/04
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