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88 out of 100

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8.0 out of 10

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  • Summary: 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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  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    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)
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    90
    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.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    90
    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.

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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
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  1. ChelseaS.
    10
    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.… Expand
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  2. RichL.
    10
    A stunning and unique movie. Hopefully the re-release will give this haunting underrrated film the recognition it so deserves.
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  3. JonathanM.
    10
    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.")… Expand
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