A timelessly powerful film.
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01/06/04
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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
One of the essential works of world cinema.
03/10/08
The painful, desperate film, a re-enactment of Algerian revolutionaries' efforts to break free from French rule, is a practical textbook on how not to run an occupation.
06/04/04
A riveting reconstruction of the struggle for independence in mid-50s Algiers, its pseudo-documentary style still feels as headline-fresh as its content.
05/15/07
The chafing, mutually uncomprehending collision of Western occupiers and Muslim occupied has never been captured with such dispassionate, thrilling clarity.
02/27/04
It’s more disturbing now than ever.
03/01/04
The film's explosive power transcends the headlines.
06/10/04
Vital and disquieting, this is a powerful depiction of the pity of war. As shocking today as it was on the day of its release.
10/26/03
What makes this Charlotte Film Society entry remarkable is that the Italian director sympathizes with both sides.
07/09/04
Pontecorvo has nearly accomplished the impossible: to make an epic film that convinces the viewer he is watching the real thing.
10/26/03
What lessons a modern viewer can gain from the film depends on who is watching and what they want to see.
10/23/04
Top CriticLike all masterpieces, it speaks to later ages as powerfully and intelligently as to its own.
01/08/04
This lesson in modern warfare is not only instructive to the Pentagon's military but is of considerable value to any generation's fascination with law, order, anarchic behavior and classic story-telling technique.
01/12/04
what really resonates on watching Algiers is its message about the widespread loss of civilian life and the staggering destruction to civic infrastructure as the heaviest costs of war
12/07/06
It's as fresh and suspenseful as anything before or since.
10/19/04
Top Critic"The Battle Of Algiers" is a one of a kind masterpiece of pure cinema that you will never forget.
04/26/09
A startling and still-potent view of the double standard of war.
02/13/04
A riveting look at France's failed attempt to remain a colonial force in Algeria. Re-release.
10/23/03
The verity of a documentary...with the narrative drive and emotional charge of a great thriller
02/11/04
Faux-documentary masterpiece
05/11/07
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