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Glory

1989

Edward Zwick

Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman ...

7.0

9,025

War. Drama GLORY recounts the bravery of a group of Civil War soldiers often overlooked by history--the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts, a troop of free black men who fought to help win liberty for their enslaved brothers. Based on the historical novels ONE GALLANT RUSH by Peter Burchand and LAY THIS LAUREL by Lincoln Kirstein and the letters of Robert Gould Shaw, the film follows the youthful Colonel Shaw (Matthew Broderick) as he takes ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Glory' is a strong and valuable film no matter whose eyes it is seen through. But there is still, I suspect, another and quite different film to be made from this same material (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"[It] is the first serious American movie about the Civil War to be made in years (...) This is a good, moving, complicated film"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Historically fascinating (...) [The cast] is strong, and the training and battle scenes seem carefully researched (...) A pretty watchable and always interesting period film"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Though the film has an evocative look reminiscent of Matthew Brady’s period photographs, Zwick has stuffed the actors’ mouths with numbing bombast"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Exceptionally well-rendered and emotive war drama (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Variety	"'Glory' has the sweep and magnificence of a Tolstoy battle tale or a John Ford saga of American history."	POS

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