"The Battle Of Algiers" is a one of a kind masterpiece of pure cinema that you will never forget.
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04/26/09
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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
It's a frank blend of exoticism, eroticism and foreshadowed horror.
10/18/08
It's a dedicated effort with importance as a 'document.'
10/18/08
Top CriticOne of the essential works of world cinema.
03/10/08
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
Gillo Pontecorvo's epic of revolutionary fervour has dimmed not an iota since it was first released in 1966.
05/11/07
Forty years on, the film’s lost not a fraction of its power.
05/11/07
Faux-documentary masterpiece
05/11/07
Whatever they made of The Battle of Algiers at the Pentagon, this is a must-see for everyone else now.
05/11/07
Brilliantly directed set-pieces and remarkable thronging crowd scenes make the film a masterpiece; the ominous familiarity of its subject makes it a must-see.
05/11/07
The most important piece of political filmmaking since Battleship Potemkin.
05/11/07
The inspiration and blueprint for docudrama and ideological cinema worldwide.
02/07/07
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
Superb and unrivalled.
01/26/06
While it's clear that the movie is very much a stacked deck, which invariably takes the Algerian side, the bias doesn't lessen the film's lesson.
09/08/05
No review available.
02/17/05
No review available.
11/19/04
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 CriticA thrilling movie with the unusual message that sometimes terrorism works.
10/21/04
It's as fresh and suspenseful as anything before or since.
10/19/04
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