Apocalypse Now: Critic Reviews
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MovieWeb: 4 reviews
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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews
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Vincent Canby New York Times (Top Critic)100As technically complex and masterful as any war film I can remember.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Eric Harrison Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)Apocalypse Now did help provide me, and many of my generation, with a vision of what film art could achieve, a vision so magnificent it doomed us to spend much of our subsequent moviegoing lives in a funk.Full Review » 7 years ago
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Dave Kehr Chicago Reader (Top Critic)75There are worse ways to make movies, but there are a lot of better ones too.Full Review » 11 years ago
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Dale Pollock Variety (Top Critic)Alternately a brilliant and bizarre film, Francis Coppola's four year 'work in progress' offers the definitive validation to the old saw, 'war is hell.'Full Review » 5 years ago
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Allen Barra Salon.com (Top Critic)What the excitement was about was the unspoken belief that this film would put a cap on the most exciting decade in American film, that it would sum up everything that had come before and influence everything that came after...Full Review » 10 years ago
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Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)The opening, with the whirling sound of choppers intercut with Willard sweating angst in his Saigon hotel bed, a jungle burning with napalm...remains a visual and aural wonder.Full Review » 10 years ago
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Rob Humanick Slant Magazine100It may just be the most ferocious of all American films.Full Review » 1 year ago
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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com84One of the best movies about the Vietnam War, an epic spectacle that's brilliant up to the last reel, when Brando appears.Full Review » 1 year ago
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Kelly Kessler Common Sense Media80Disturbing tale of war horrors isn't for kids.Full Review » 1 year ago
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Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com100There is greatness in Apocalypse Now, but there is also madness, and they feed off each other.Full Review » 3 years ago
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Film4100The movie Francis Ford Coppola never recovered from, and the last word in Ci-Nam-a.Full Review » 4 years ago
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Empire Magazine100Apocalypse Now is as good as ever.Full Review » 5 years ago
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Phil Villarreal Arizona Daily Star100His film is timeless because although the setting may change, the wars and the plight of soldiers will remain the same.Full Review » 6 years ago
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Geoff Andrew Time Out...it's wonderful to see this hallucinatory folly-cum-near masterpiece again on the big screen.Full Review » 6 years ago
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Film Threat100I remember leaving the theater feeling shocked, bewildered, confused and, though I was amazed and thrilled by the action, the ending somehow left me unsettled.Full Review » 6 years ago
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Bill Clark FromTheBalcony100One of cinema's finest hours...Brando, in his limited screen time, makes an everlasting impression.Full Review » 7 years ago
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Rob Vaux Flipside Movie Emporium75Coppola's magnum opus remains one of the singular reasons filmmaking was invented.Full Review » 7 years ago
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Jeffrey Overstreet Looking Closer100It is also the perfect device for so many universal stories, mythic and true. The journey is everyman's road to self-discovery.Full Review » 7 years ago
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Max Messier Filmcritic.com100...one of the most amazing pieces of celluloid ever produced, capturing not only the ugliness and ridiculousness of Vietnam, but exposing the dark heart of man as well.Full Review » 8 years ago
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Dan Jardine Apollo Guide88It is also occasionally flaccid, incomprehensible and obtuse. Yet, it manages to overcome these flaws to stand as a fascinating study of the nature of evil in man.Full Review » 8 years ago
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and PracticeApocalypse Now has a philosophical underpinning that sets it apart from other recent cinematic evaluations of the American involvement in Vietnam.Full Review » 8 years ago
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Moira MacDonald Seattle Times...Coppola's sprawling, harrowing war story is not to be missed.Full Review » 8 years ago
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Eric Lurio Greenwich Village GazetteCoppola has made a major mistake by this re-edit.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Susan Tavernetti Palo Alto Weekly75No film has depicted the fiasco in Southeast Asia in more mythic form than Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Chris Gore Film Threat100I remember leaving the theater feeling shocked, bewildered, confused and, though I was amazed and thrilled by the action, the ending somehow left me unsettled.Full Review » 9 years ago
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