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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
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Stunning. Full Review |
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Greengrass sacrifices character and plot to a chilling impressionistic stylization. Full Review |
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Watching director Paul Greengrass's explosive Bloody Sunday, you have to remind yourself at moments that you're not looking at a documentary. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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Bloody Sunday demonstrates an historical thesis formulated in retrospect, which fits oddly with Greengrass's continuous-present technique. Full Review |
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Comparisons with The Battle of Algiers are not inappropriate. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Intense and difficult, but rewarding. Full Review |
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5/5 |
As atuações viscerais e a direção pseudo-documental recriam com contudência um dos episódios mais revoltantes da história da luta irlandesa contra a dominação britânica.
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Captures the horrors of a civil rights march taking a wrong turn in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry on Sunday, January 30, 1972. Full Review |
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This is tragedy in its rawest form: bloody chaos I couldn't help but watch. . . . The tension is palpable and the brutality is immediate. Full Review |
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5/5 |
The immediacy is overwhelming...an extraordinarily powerful film. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Click to read the article Full Review |
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An amazing feat of movie making, “Bloody Sunday” leaves you stunned. Full Review |
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4/5 |
No victories here, but Greengrass' film is a triumph in anguish. Full Review |
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The audience is placed right in the center of events in a multi-sensual, horrific 'you are there' virtual reality of social protest that grabs you and never lets go. Full Review |
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The film exudes a universality that may apply to any conflict, especially any that provokes people to become killing machines in the name of nationalism. Full Review |
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[Nesbitt's is] one of those performances that simply 'is.' Full Review |
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4/5 |
A gripping experience, and often downright sickening. Full Review |
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3/4 |
It offers an important lesson about how a supposedly simple disagreement can get so far out of hand that lives are lost. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Taut, terse and livid. Full Review |
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