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This movie.. I really needed some days after watching it and not write review shortly after as I felt there is not much after that movie I could say - the way so hard and terrible events where portrayed on so realistic, but also unique and...
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This movie.. I really needed some days after watching it and not write review shortly after as I felt there is not much after that movie I could say - the way so hard and terrible events where portrayed on so realistic, but also unique and different manner as Greengrass mostly does, it is unforgettable. The way the story was shown, the way every little action lead to another until to the end - to those two fatal minutes. First it made me so angry - watching this film, then it made me sad... but the real beauty of this film is - the quality, the emotional affect it will have, the way it will make you think and the way the events where shows so real like without major drifts from original events.

A movie worth to watch!

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Posted dec 22, 2007 11:32 pm pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  100
  It's a mad cycle of arrogance and despair, and Bloody Sunday etches it onto your nervous system.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Newsweek
  
  100
  Brings history to life with an uncanny sense of realism.

  by David Ansen | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  100
  By re-imagining a pivotal, terrible 24 hours, Greengrass has made a must-see film that is timely - and timeless.

  by Mark Caro | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
  100
  For the viewer, the miracle of Bloody Sunday is that firm moral judgment can exist side by side with a wild and bitter exhilaration in the sheer physicality of violence. [7 Oct 2002, p. 108]

  by David Denby | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  100
  A bracing, unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale.

  by Steven Rea | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  100
  A great achievement: tense and passionate, a film that one feels not just emotionally but also physically.

  by Edward Guthmann | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  100
  An extraordinary film ... that's impossible to dismiss or leave unmoved.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  100
  A stunning work, revisiting controversial events with journalistic objectivity and a meticulous eye for detail.

  by Scott Foundas | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  100
  The most visceral and cumulatively powerful account of civil war since Gillo Pontecorvo's "The Battle of Algiers."

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  91
  It's raw, visceral stuff that precious few movies are capable of equaling.

  by Shawn Levy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  90
  The movie's searing conclusion left me numb and overwhelmed.

  by Patrick Z. McGavin | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
  90
  Amazingly, almost every note of every performance in Bloody Sunday rings true.

  by Gregory Weinkauf | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  90
  Once positions hardened, tragedy was all but inevitable, and Bloody Sunday" does the spirit of that awful day full and unforgettable justice.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  90
  Bloody Sunday doesn't surrender its grip on the viewer even after the action shifts from the streets of Bogside to a local hospital where the weeping masses are still under the guns of the war-painted British soldiers.

  by J. Hoberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  90
  The level of accomplishment in the filmmaking is overwhelming.

  by A.O. Scott | Read Full Review »