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How I Won the War

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How I Won the War (1967)

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Reviews Counted:12

Fresh:7

Rotten:5

Average Rating:5.7/10

Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: An inept officer is given the assignment to lead his battalion out of England into the searing Egyptian desert where he must construct a cricket field. A scathing lampoon of warfare.

Starring: John Lennon, Michael Crawford, Roy Kinnear, Jack MacGowran

Starring: John Lennon, Michael Crawford, Roy Kinnear, Jack MacGowran

Director: Richard Lester

Director: Richard Lester
Screenwriter: Charles Wood

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Thought provoking, at very least, John Lennon starrer.

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02/23/08
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Video-Reviewmaster.com

This seemingly incongruous mixture will work for some viewers, and, though the seriousness of Lester's intent may not be appreciated by everyone, most should at least find something here to make them laugh.

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09/10/07
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Patrick Ryan's novel has been adapted into a screenplay which, as directed by Richard Lester, substitutes motion for emotion, reeling for feeling, and crude slapstick for telling satire.

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09/10/07
Variety Staff
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Variety
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Dated, maybe, but Lester's gruesomely black anti-war comedy still looks inventive, and manages occasionally to hit home with its blend of surreal lunacy and barbed satire.

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
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05/19/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

I am afraid Mr. Lester has not added a single discouragement of war, but simply a little discouragement toward patronizing too-pretentious films.

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05/09/05
Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther
New York Times
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I got no impression from this film that Lester really, personally, cares very strongly one way or the other about war. It was only a currently fashionable subject, a good excuse to make a movie.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
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Chicago Sun-Times
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It still has an edge most films would shy away from. It's brilliant, bitter, defiant and angry.

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05/31/04
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

This war farce (about World War II) is just not funny.

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08/27/03
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
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Ambitious, stylised British satire. Written and acted with conviction, it pulls no punches.

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05/24/03
Jon Fortgang
Jon Fortgang
Channel 4 Film

Lester's op-pop style, jump cutting from incident to incident, seems too inherently cheerful for the material, which features fountains of stage blood.

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01/01/00
Dave Kehr
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