Apocalypse Now: Critic Reviews
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MovieWeb: 4 reviews
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Rotten Tomatoes: 78 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 » 11 years ago
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Philip French Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)Apocalypse Now is not merely the greatest film to come out of the Vietnam experience but one of the great works about the madness of our times.Full Review » 2 years ago
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Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)100A film that needs to be seen on the big screen.Full Review » 2 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 » 8 years ago
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)100The film has one of the most haunting endings in cinema, a poetic evocation of what Kurtz has discovered, and what we hope not to discover for ourselves.Full Review » 13 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 » 12 years ago
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Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)100Full Review » 11 years ago
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Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)Full Review » 1 year 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 » 6 years ago
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Jonathan Foreman New York Post (Top Critic)100Full Review » 11 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 » 11 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 » 11 years ago
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Blake Howard 2UE That Movie Show100With a famously horrific and documentary inspiring shoot it's almost unfathomable how Francis Ford Coppolla managed to harness the chaotic energy into one of the most potent examinations of war and masculinity to ever grace celluloid.Full Review » 6 months ago
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Matthew Pejkovic Matt's Movie Reviews90Perhaps Francis Ford Coppola's greatest directorial achievement, Apocalypse Now is a visually stunning war film that has no equal, with cinematographer Vittorio Storaro capturing the films Philippine location to great effect.Full Review » 1 year ago
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Coco Forsythe Future Movies UK100A must-see, preferably in the cinema.Full Review » 2 years ago
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Anthony Quinn Independent100The best of it is grand, mysterious and oddly possessed.Full Review » 2 years ago
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Derek Malcolm This is London100Undoubtedly it is one of the best films about war ever made.Full Review » 2 years ago
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Marc Lee Daily Telegraph100It is mystical, daring, poetic, thrilling, appalling and never less than utterly mesmerising.Full Review » 2 years ago
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Adrian Turner Radio Times100Coppola delivered a harrowing masterwork that bursts with malarial, mystical images...Full Review » 2 years ago
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Matt Bochenski Little White Lies100A gilt-edged, no-messing, accept-no-substitutes masterpiece.Full Review » 2 years ago
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Tom Huddleston Time Out100A film of pure sensation, dazzling audiences with light and noise, laying bare the stark horror - and unimaginable thrill - of combat.Full Review » 2 years ago
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Angie Errigo Empire Magazine100This disturbing vision of the harrowing effects of war and violence continues to shock and haunt audiences.Full Review » 2 years 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 » 2 years ago
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Kelly Kessler Common Sense Media80Disturbing tale of war horrors isn't for kids.Full Review » 2 years ago
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Rob Humanick Slant Magazine100This manifestation of creative determination and hell-on-Earth experience just might reinvigorate your belief that a greater power guides us at our most pivotal times.Full Review » 3 years ago
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