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The Deer Hunter

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

The Deer Hunter

1978

Michael Cimino

Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage ...

8.0

50,721

Drama. War It follows a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. This war conflict will change their lives forever.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It is one of the most emotionally shattering films ever made (...) The film contains greatly moving performances (...) [An] impressive blending of 'box office' and 'art' (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Cimino's masterpiece of cruelty and horror (...) Bold and brilliant (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Colin Kennedy Empire	"A simultaneuosly touching and harrowing experience that puts the audience directly in the shoes of one man's experience of Vietnam (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Its view is limited and its narrative at times sketchy (...) Both deeply troubling and troublesome (...) but its feelings for time, place and blue-collar people are genuine"	NEU
Ireland	Tara Brady Irish Times	"There are many unforgettable moments, made all the more indelible by the cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond (...) Walken’s Oscar- winning performance is a thing of terrible beauty (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Kathleen Carroll New York Daily News	"This bravely innovative, kingsized movie (...) enables one to fully understand why this particular war not only destroyed the hopes and dreams of America’s young men, but why it left so many of them permanently shattered and alienated from society."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"While the results are far from unprofessional (...) the male self-pity is so overwhelming that you'll probably stagger out of this mumbling something about Tolstoy (...) if you aren't as nauseated as I was."	NEU
United States	Charles Schreger Variety	"The film remains intense, powerful and fascinating for more than three hours (...) It succeeds on a number of levels and it proves that Cimino is an important director who deserves to be watched carefully."	POS
United Kingdom	Adrian Turner Radio Times	"One of the finest and most controversial movies about the Vietnam War (...) This intense drama lingers long in the memory (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Marc Lee Telegraph	"Michael Cimino's Vietnam War epic is timed to perfection (...) The cost of war in terms of suffering - physical, mental, emotional - has rarely been so sharply realised."	POS
United Kingdom	Almar Haflidason BBC	"[A] searing study of friendship and the mental devastation that war wreaks (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Chris Auty Time Out	"This is probably one of the few great films of the Seventies (...) Ideally, though, it should prove as gruelling a test of its audience's moral and political conscience (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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