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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:31
Rotten:3
Average Rating:8.1/10
Consensus: Powerfully effective, this anti-fascist political thriller stands out as both high-conscience melodrama and high-tempo action movie.
Theatrical Release:Mar 13, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: "Z" is a classic Cold-War political thriller, based on a true story. It concerns the assassination of Zei, a popular pacifist and anti-nuclear leader. The aftermath of the incident reveals a deeper... [More]
The recreation of the murder and the subsequent investigation uses the techniques of an American thriller to gripping effect, though conspiracies are so commonplace nowadays that it's hard to imagine the impact it made at the time.
A chilling, manipulative rollercoaster ride.
Superbly acted, gripping entertainment.
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Years later, Costa-Gavras’ shrewd contrivance and superb form hold up impressively.
It's still an eye-catching, fast-paced watch.
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Way ahead of the curve.
Z combines the intellectual heft of revolution-themed films like The Battle of Algiers with the drop-dead cool of mod touchstones like Blow Out or Le Samouraï.
Fascism has been driven underground, but a dose of Costa-Gavra's electrifyingly brutal 1969 political thriller Z will rattle you all the same.
Top CriticMikis Theodorakis provides a stirring musical score of traditional Greek music.
Forty years later, Z remains one of the most thrilling and urgent political thrillers ever made, a model for socially-conscious melodramas (and Costa-Gavras best picture).
The cyclonic drive is all heat and outrage
One of the most riveting political films ever made with its vivid depiction of the corrupt and corrosive lust for power.
This movie is for those who prefer for there to be meat on a screenplay's skeleton and who don't demand far-fetched conspiracy theories that play fast and loose with the facts.
Top Critica relentlessly fast-paced political expose that has not a single wasted second
Costa-Garvas organizes the material brilliantly to maintain interest, gradually revealing new layers of intrigue as the plot unwinds Rashoman-like style
As fresh and cogent today as it was then -- or perhaps it's simply that real life has made it once again relevant.
Its mere existence is testimony to the fact that no matter how hard those in power struggle to conceal their misdeeds, truth will eventually win out.
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