Compelling performances and beautifully told heroics but the pacing is flawed in terms of a thrilling cinematic experience.
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10/04/09
The Army of Crime (2009)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:16
Rotten:0
Average Rating:6.9/10
Theatrical Release:02-10-2009
Starring: Virginie Ledoyen, Simon Abkarian, Robinson Stévenin, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Director: Robert Guediguian
Reviews for The Army of Crime
1 - 16 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticHis film is always fascinating and is a crucial, stirring addition to the cinema about wartime France.
10/04/09
Top CriticComplex and striking, Guédiguian's film is an impressive new spin on a topic that has been oft explored.
10/04/09
Top CriticGuédiguian manages to make this a worthy companion piece to Melville's resistance classic Army in the Shadows; the same remorseless dread stalks both.
10/04/09
Top CriticA credible, detailed picture of day-to-day life in occupied France: an attraction in itself.
10/04/09
A consistently exciting, morally engaging movie.
10/04/09
With such painstaking attention to detail the extraordinary endeavours of these brave men and women are brought to life with fervour and affection.
10/04/09
Favouring character and atmosphere over flamboyant technique, this is as focused, balanced and compelling a war drama as you're likely to see.
10/04/09
Though it follows a familiar arc of assassinations and bombings that provoke savage reprisals, it doesn’t flinch from showing the French police’s role in rounding up and deporting Jewish citizens.
10/04/09
As a tribute to these fearless freedom fighters, it's a worthy effort - and as a welcome, and sobering, antidote to the knockabout silliness of Inglourious Basterds, you couldn't really get any better.
10/04/09
Top CriticTarantino's wild fiction is a lot more fun than Guédiguian's restrained facts.
10/04/09
Grave, heartfelt, medium-engrossing, it still feels like every resistance movie you have ever seen, rolled into a ball of historical revisionism.
10/04/09
A sombre and gripping account of guerrilla fighters in Paris.
10/04/09
The film is a little sluggish in its pacing but solidly handled and doesn’t pull its punches in depicting a France where some of the population were only too willing to accept their fate as a conquered nation.
10/04/09
It is a tragic story that deserves to be remembered and has rarely been told on film.
10/04/09
Though it drags here and there and is a bit flat in places, the film is solidly made and for the most part quite involving.
05/18/09
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