Despite a little dating around the edges this is a truly superb example of its genre and a cinema classic.
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10/16/07
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
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Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 29
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Consensus: Director Lewis Milestone's brilliant anti-war polemic, headlined by an unforgettable performance from Lew Ayres, lays bare the tragic foolishness at the heart of war.
Runtime: 2 hrs 12 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Still widely regarded as the best war film ever made, director Lewis Milestone's adaptation of the Remarque WWI novel is clearly his masterpiece, a searing indictment of the insanity of war. Starring Lew Ayres as the young Paul Bauman, the... [More]
Starring: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, Russell Gleason, John Wray
Director: Lewis Milestone
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Reviews for All Quiet on the Western Front
A a film that remains one of the most powerful screen comments on the horrors of war.
10/16/07
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Top Critic The film's centerpiece battle runs only eight minutes, yet its hellfire feels twice as long as Saving Private Ryan's D-Day onslaught.
07/03/07
...a bitter indictment of the insulated powers that induce naive young men to kill one another.
02/09/07
This uncompromising drama makes a bleak statement of war fighting in trenches, stressing the inanity of WWI (or any war) for both sides; perhaps the most memorable moment is the one in which Lew Ayres reaches out for a butterfly to disastrous effect.
12/25/06
There are few war films that can match the brilliance of Lewis Milestone's anti-war classic. It's a feast for the ears with a passionate soul.
10/05/06
The film's strength now derives less from its admittedly powerful but highly simplistic utterances about war as waste, than from a generally excellent set of performances (Ayres especially) and an almost total reluctance to follow normal plot structure.
06/24/06
The horrific immediacy of the battle scenes remains unsurpassed and even though the discussions on the purposes, causes and effects of war now seem laboured and stagy, they still have power and cogency.
01/15/04
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