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The Ritchie Boys
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76 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
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  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Michael Rechtshaffen
    90
    A fascinating documentary with a high entertainment quotient thanks to the fact that the film's surviving subjects prove to be some of the most articulate, not to mention wittiest, octogenarians around.
  2. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: James Wegg
    80
    Any thinking person – no matter what political stripe or moral belief – needs to see this important film then try to apply its valuable lessons to today's, still, unstable planet.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Drew Tillman
    80
    These are men who know of what they speak; they're also eloquent, erudite, and funny as hell.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    80
    Those whose tolerance of Greatest Generation war stories isn't exhausted, not to mention those who still thrive on them, will find the group of men who called themselves the Ritchie Boys good company.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    80
    Christian Bauer's engaging The Ritchie Boys captures the excitement, ironies and "good war" feel of World War II.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    Still witty and eloquent, these cerebral boys became the haunted men who do their best to share their experiences with us, even as they know we'll never truly understand.
  7. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    70
    This is a film with a story we have not seen before, a story about American troops so unusual it needed a German director to ferret it out.
  8. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    70
    The visual monotony of talking heads and stock footage is interrupted occasionally by the spectral charcoal drawings of veteran Si Lewen, though his art is used to full advantage only when he describes the liberation of Buchenwald.
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