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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 27 Nov 2019

By the end, 1917 has positioned itself as a salute to the sacrifices of those who died for their country…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 26 Nov 2019

1917 is a modern war classic and one of the best movies of the year…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for The Playlist (3,871) on 26 Nov 2019

The proximity and intimacy of the technique render Schofield and Blake’s journey more visceral, and more frightening…

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By Matt Maytum (105) for Total Film (3,532) on 26 Nov 2019

Sam Mendes audacious WW1 epic is a sensational technical achievement, grounded by George MacKay’s gritty intensity…

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By Alex Godfrey (59) for Empire (3,446) on 26 Nov 2019

Although 1917’s filmmaking very much brings attention to itself, it’s an astonishing piece of filmmaking, portraying war with enormous…

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By Jake Cole (292) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Nov 2019

The most thrilling and haunting details here are actively undermined by the chief technical gimmick of the film…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 25 Nov 2019

1917 is Mendes’s most purely ambitious and passionate picture since his misunderstood and under-appreciated Jarhead of 2005…

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By Jim Vejvoda (203) for IGN (1,013) on 25 Nov 2019

1917 is an expertly crafted and emotionally exhausting thrill-ride behind enemy lines…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 25 Nov 2019

The film belongs to Chapman and more than anyone, MacKay, a 27-year-old Londoner with the long bones and baleful eyes of a porcelain saint…

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By Fionnuala Halligan (367) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 25 Nov 2019

Mendes is intent on bringing a sense of breathless derring-do to a war only known for its doomed futility…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 25 Nov 2019

Even if the film is mostly hitting familiar notes in terms of story and theme, it expresses a concise, focused and expertly managed vision…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 25 Nov 2019

The clock is always ticking in 1917, and even as MacKay is offering a heartbreaking study in restrained emotion, he’s still at least moving…

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By Mike Ryan (265) for Uproxx (697) on 25 Nov 2019

We basically just get our orders and go. But I get the sense this is Mendes’ point. His goal is to put us in World War I for two hours…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 25 Nov 2019

Astonishing as his filmmaking can be at times, it’s Mendes’ attention to character, more than the technique, that makes 1917 one of 2019’s…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 25 Nov 2019

1917 is a rattling wonder of form, an audacious undertaking that nonetheless bobbles or cheats on a few occasions…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 25 Nov 2019

The movie is more successful as a thriller than as a thoughtful examination of war and its horrors; Mendes seems less interested in bigger…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 25 Nov 2019

There are times when the nonstop visual momentum lends 1917 the feel of a virtual-reality installation, and others when the simulation of raw…

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