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Bloody Sunday (2002)
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Reviews Counted:101
Fresh:93
Rotten:8
Average Rating:7.9/10
Consensus: Bloody Sunday powerfully recreates the events of that day with startling immediacy.
Theatrical Release:Oct 4, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $555,414
Synopsis: In documentary style, Paul Greengrass' BLOODY SUNDAY, which chronicles the events of January 30, 1972 in Derry, Ireland, is filmed with gritty gray realness. Surrounding a peaceful protest march... [More]
Starring: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell, Gerard McSorley
Director: Paul Greengrass
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Reviews for Bloody Sunday
Whether you'd call this 'docudrama', 'faction' or 'factual drama', the result is enough to make you seethe with anger and moral outrage.
03/21/02
The pre-conflict story keeps it amazingly balanced, giving us brief insight to the British soldiers' fears, while the tension-filled ride that follows demands full attention.
10/04/02
Bloody Sunday demonstrates an historical thesis formulated in retrospect, which fits oddly with Greengrass's continuous-present technique.
06/24/06
Greengrass has deliberately chosen to provoke an emotional rather than intellectual response with his film -- but sometimes provocation is much preferred to the British media's maintenance of the status quo.
12/30/06
Easily stands alongside such throat-clutching classics of cinematic political action as Z and The Battle of Algiers.
10/18/02
This is tragedy in its rawest form: bloody chaos I couldn't help but watch. . . . The tension is palpable and the brutality is immediate.
12/01/03
What's most striking about Greengrass' film is just how real it all feels.
10/28/02
Unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly, your first instinct is to duck.
10/10/02
Top CriticWith a grainy, documentary look, the movie brings to life a tragic event and leaves an impression that is impossible to forget.
11/01/02
The film uses an artless, documentary approach to buttress its impassioned argument that soldiers treated innocent people as if they were terrorists.
11/15/02
Bloody Sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to place blame, making it one of the best war movies ever made. It’s a movie that accomplishes so much that one viewing can’t possibly be enough.
10/26/02
Watching director Paul Greengrass's explosive Bloody Sunday, you have to remind yourself at moments that you're not looking at a documentary.
11/01/07
Top Critic[Nesbitt's is] one of those performances that simply 'is.'
01/07/03
Captures the horrors of a civil rights march taking a wrong turn in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry on Sunday, January 30, 1972.
02/20/04
A movie to remember.
11/01/02
Top CriticA forceful and accomplished work.
10/12/02
Intelligently crafted and often insightful.
08/21/02
Greengrass gives the film a brawling, bruising intimacy that makes the graphic finale hard to watch.
10/24/02
Greengrass's gripping Bloody Sunday could easily pass for a documentary on the 1972 Derry massacre is a testament to the immediacy of this vérité exercise.
09/05/02
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