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Saving Private Ryan

1998

Steven Spielberg

Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Matt Damon ...

7.8

142,250

War James Ryan (Matt Damon), who has parachuted into France during the Allied invasion of Europe, has just lost three brothers in combat. Government policy dictates that he should return home lest his family be deprived of all its male offspring. A team of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) and fresh from the beaches of Normandy, is assembled to find and save Private Ryan.

	Author	Review
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"'Saving Private Ryan' is a masterpiece. It cements Steven Spielberg's reputation as one of the seminal filmmakers of the era"	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"Searing, heartbreaking, so intense it turns your body into a single tube of clenched muscle, this is simply the greatest war movie ever made"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"No further commentary is needed when the raw brutality of combat is presented as indelibly as it is here"	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"The great Hollywood battle films have told us repeatedly that war is hell. Saving Private Ryan, more than any other, is the one that shows it"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie's opening sequence is as graphic as any war footage I've ever seen (...) A powerful experience (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Soberly magnificent (...) This film simply looks at war as if war had not been looked at before (...) The finest war movie of our time."	POS
United States	Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter	"The visual masterwork finds Spielberg atop his craft (...) There are moments that come awfully close to perfection"	POS
United Kingdom	Martin Chilton Telegraph	"Steven Spielberg's film is not perfect (...) But it is a modern war classic (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"[It] is as powerful, devastating, memorable and moving as movies get (...) Essential viewing (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Paul Tatara CNN	"[It] clearly illustrates, once and for all, that war (...) is hell on earth (...) Spielberg accomplishes these goals with a technical virtuosity that no other director, arguably in the history of the cinema, can even approach."	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"There's something here for everybody (...) It has a few pretty good action moments"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Radio Times	"[It is] well-meaning, strongly acted and slickly mounted, and ranks among the director's very best films (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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