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Iluminados por el fuego
Metascore
61 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
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  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    70
    The morbid and gripping war film Blessed by Fire, from the Argentine filmmaker Tristán Bauer, is well worth a look.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    70
    Blessed by Fire, a bitter remembrance of the Falklands War in 1982, captures battlefield chaos and confusion with a visceral force you won't forget.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    63
    The battlefield sequences unfold with surreal horror, while the human bonding in the foxholes emerges tenderly. On the downside, Bauer - who makes no pretense about where his heart lies - tacks on a melodramatic coda that lessens the momentum of an otherwise praiseworthy film.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Holland
    60
    A watchable if none-too-penetrating analysis of the traumatizing effects of a war largely forgotten.
  5. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Julia Wallace
    50
    Tristán Bauer's new war movie has an even more bitterly ironic title in Spanish: "Iluminados por El Fuego" or "Enlightened by Fire."
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