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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Film.comTom KeoghFilm.comTom KeoghMisshapen but magnificent vision of a soulful quest -- in the thick of misery and fear -- for the meaning of our lives.
- 90The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasMalick's powerful intermingling of brutality and beauty, his signature cutaways to indigenous flora and fauna, and the gentle lyricism of his disjunctive narration and painterly images are too rich to fully register in a single viewing.
- 90TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissThe film is a gorgeous garland on an unknown soldier's grave.
- 90Film.comJohn HartlFilm.comJohn HartlCould be called the "Red Badge of Courage" of World War II movies.
- 80TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghAn intensely internalized portrait of external pandemonium, a slippery, insidiously haunting work of poetry rather than brilliantly realized pulp.
- 80SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinNo movie in the last decade has succeeded in psyching out critics and audiences as fully as the powerful, rambling war epic The Thin Red Line.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie's schizophrenia keeps it from greatness (this film has no firm idea of what it is about), but doesn't make it bad. It is, in fact, sort of fascinating: a film in the act of becoming, a field trial, an experiment in which a dreamy poet meditates on stark reality.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenLike no other war movie you've ever seen.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe director is a poet of images.
- 70Washington PostStephen HunterWashington PostStephen HunterA big, fat, gorgeous, mesmerizing mess.