Critic Reviews
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Chicago Tribune
The movie holds up far better than its detractors guessed - splendidly, in fact - not only thanks to Scott's spellbinding acting, but to the epic imagery, Coppola's (and Edmund North's) highly intelligent script and Schaffner's lucid, perfectly controlled direction.
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ReelViews
Patton remains to this day one of Hollywood's most compelling biographical war pictures.
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USA Today
Still mesmerizes on the strength of George C. Scott's chew-your-behind performance. [5 Nov. 1999, p.6E]
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Variety
Staff (Not credited)
War is hell, and Patton is one hell of a war picture, perhaps one of the most remarkable of its type ever made.
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The New York Times
A huge, initially ambivalent but finally adoring, Pop portrait of one of the most brilliant and outrageous American military figures of the last one hundred years.
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TV Guide
Staff (Not credited)
Patton is a war movie of unusual depth and a landmark in screen biographies.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Not a war film so much as the story of a personality who has found the right role to play. Scott's theatricality is electrifying.
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Chicago Reader
Patton's personality--conveyed with pointed theatrical flair by George C. Scott--is registered in rich tones of grandeur and megalomania, genius and petty sadism.
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Entertainment Weekly
Staff (Not credited)
George C. Scott's Oscar-winning portrait of the megalomaniacal warrior general is still the glue holding together this blunt study of war as the ultimate human (and dehumanizing) game.
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