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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:34
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.6/10
Consensus: An engrossing look at the triumphs and travails of war veterans, The Best Years of Our Lives is concerned specifically with the aftermath of World War II, but its messages speak to the overall American experience.
Runtime: 2 hrs 52 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Perhaps the most memorable film about the aftermath of World War II, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES unfolds with the homecoming of three veterans to the same small town. The leads all touch emotional... [More]
Starring: Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright
Director: William Wyler
Este belíssimo estudo sobre as seqüelas sociais e psicológicas da guerra (para não mencionar as físicas) permanece atual mais de 60 anos depois de seu lançamento, impressionando não só pelas atuações, mas também pelo virtuosismo estético.
Like most good mass entertainments, this picture has occasional moments of knowing hokum; but unlike most sure-fire movies, it was put together with good taste, honesty, wit -- and even a strong suggestion of guts.
Top CriticI found it notable mainly because its massive 172 minutes are exclusively devoted to exploring characters, rather than showing any giant-sized, dazzling "epic" scenes.
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Although it contains moving passages, Best Years is not much more than a conventional drama on the problems of servicemen attempting to adjust to life in postwar America, well served by an all-star cast and Toland's ingenious deep-focus setups.
Top CriticIt may be corny, but you'd have to be a real cynic not to be drawn in.
Top CriticOne of the best pictures of our lives.
Top CriticSurprisingly modern: lean, direct, honest about issues that Hollywood then studiously avoided.
Top CriticOne of the few films that deserved all the awards heaped on it from the Oscars.
No review available.
I'd call this the best American movie about returning soldiers I've ever seen -- the most moving and the most deeply felt.
Top CriticThe film is very proud of itself, exuding a stifling piety at times, but it works as well as this sort of thing can, thanks to accomplished performances by Fredric March, Myrna Loy, and Dana Andrews, who keep the human element afloat.
Top CriticA biting look at the devestation caused by war on returning soldiers.
Overlong, perhaps, but this tender and occasionally tough look at the plight of returning war veterans is one of Wyler's best films.
Post-war Hollywood drama at its heartfelt best.
No review available.
The film captured the mood of post-WWII America so well that even harsher critics like James Agee failed to see the film's dramatic flaws, instead stressing its realism and black-and-white deep focus photography by Gregg Toland.
Wyler and Goldwyn have made a glorious 'intimate epic,' one worthy of every honor bestowed upon it.
This is intelligent, admirably unsentimental and utterly involving for its full three-hour running time.
The Best Years Of Our Lives is a wonderful character study, and touches on points of humankind's psychiatric makeup that are so obvious they are rarely discussed in cinematic form.
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