Review of How Green Was My Valley (1941) by Matt D — 26 Feb 2014

Surely one of the Academy's greatest crimes was awarding this movie Best Picture over 'Citizen Kane'.

While there are certainly great scenes and thematic elements that speak to American economics just as much as any film today, the film as a whole is overwrought, episodic, and overly sentimental in the least subtle ways imaginable. John Ford makes it look as beautiful as he always does but the story was far too much of a broad stroke to have much impact on me.