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Overlord

Universal acclaim
Based on 8 critic reviews
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Based on 5 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Foreign | War
Written by: Stuart Cooper
Directed by: Stuart Cooper
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 14, 2006
DVD: April 17, 2007
Running Time: 85 minutes, B/W
Origin: UK
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, Sam Sewell, John Franklyn-Robbins, Stella Tanner, and Harry Shacklock
Winner of the Silver Bear at the 1975 Berlin Film Festival, Overlord tells one soldier's story from his induction into the British army to the battle on the beaches at Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Unlike "Saving Private Ryan" and other dramatizations based on D-Day, Overlord is an intimate film, one that focuses closely on Tom Beddoes (Brian Stirner), who enters the British army, goes through basic training and is one of the first ashore on D-Day. (Reviewed in 2004)
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Like its hero, who is brave without a trace of bravado, Overlord is unusually quiet and thoughtful. The scale and ambition of combat movies has usually been epic, but this one is disarmingly lyrical and subjective.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
It's still a feat of period filmmaking. More than that, Overlord's revivification of a wasteland Europe offers up a powerful whip lesson for the postwar complacent: that the waging of war, even this most romanticized of conflicts, means bringing a corpse-mountain hell to someone's home neighborhood.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Though made 31 years after D-Day, the dramatic scenes have the period look of a '40s movie, which links them perfectly with the stunning archival footage.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Staff (Not credited)
The overriding themes of the film are never broadly stated but are subtly revealed, and the horror and reality of war are quietly played out on both the human and panoramic levels with disturbing effect.
Read Full Review >Variety Staff (Not credited)
US director Stuart Cooper gives it the right understated, unheroic feel. (Review of Original Release)
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Overlord feels like a small but vivid tragedy inside an epic container.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle G. Allen Johnson
Overlord is an ambitious, important experiment that has come to light after three decades of neglect.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jonathan M. gave it a10:
Superb war movie. The use of original film (and stuck from the old nitrate stock) is wonderful. How can such a classic only now come to light? (Well, remember Melville and "Billy Budd.")
Rich L. gave it a10:
A stunning and unique movie. Hopefully the re-release will give this haunting underrrated film the recognition it so deserves.
Chelsea S. gave it a10:
I have been waiting for this film to be released for years. A chilling, bleak and beautiful war story that's completely unlike any other war movie you will see. Highly recommended.
Brian F. gave it a10:
This film has haunted me ever since I first saw it 31 years ago.An original and mesmerising work of art.What a change in opinion too from the critics!
