Platoon: Critic Reviews
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MovieWeb: 4 reviews
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RottenTomatoes: 42 reviews
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Vincent Canby New York Times (Top Critic)100Possibly the best work of any kind about the Vietnam War since Michael Herr's vigorous and hallucinatory book 'Dispatches.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Rita Kempley Washington Post (Top Critic)Platoon is like the Wall -- a dark and unforgettable memorial to the dead of Vietnam and an awesome requiem to the eternity of war.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Paul Attanasio Washington Post (Top Critic)The movie is beautifully written (by Stone), constructed with strong, clean lines, immaculately paced and regularly surprising.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Pauline Kael New Yorker (Top Critic)I know that Platoon is being acclaimed for its realism, and I expect to be chastened for being a woman finding fault with a war film. But I've probably seen as much combat as most of the men saying, 'This is how war is.'Full Review » 10 years ago
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Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)100A film that says...that before you can make any vast, sweeping statements about Vietnam, you have to begin by understanding the bottom line, which is that a lot of people went over there and got killed, dead, and that is what the war meant for them.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)...it's still the standard against which all other movies about the Vietnam War are judged.Full Review » 12 years ago
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Pat Graham Chicago Reader (Top Critic)For all the purported naturalism, the film seems resolutely schematic, and the attitudes shaping the drama are far from open-ended.Full Review » 5 years ago
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Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)The artistic veneer Stone applies, along with the simpy narration provided for Sheen in the way of letters to his grandmother, detract significantly from the work's immediacy.Full Review » 3 years ago
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James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)100Platoon is one of those movies that, once seen, will never be forgotten, and, at least for those who were not in Vietnam, will forever alter the way in which the war is considered.Full Review » 9 years ago
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Richard Corliss TIME Magazine (Top Critic)Platoon is different. It matters.Full Review » 2 years ago
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Film480The first and best of Stone's Vietnam trilogy, it's also one of his finest pieces of work.Full Review » 3 years ago
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Phil Villarreal Arizona Daily Star100Most war films adhere to a big-picture purview, explaining which battles meant what and fulfilled which strategic objectives. Stone's effort skirts all that in favor of wrapping the viewer in visceral detail.Full Review » 5 years ago
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Wesley Lovell Oscar Guy100A terrific film from a filmmaker long absent from his art, Platoon is a frightening and challenging look into the battlefield operations of Vietnam.Full Review » 5 years ago
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Derek Adams Time OutStone's eye-blistering images possess an awesome power, which sets the senses reeling and leaves the mind disturbed.Full Review » 6 years ago
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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette94... excellent ... elegiac and poetry-stuffedFull Review » 6 years ago
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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com84Mixing realistic reportage of combat with more conventional morality play (the narrative strategy of all his films), Stone employs the two sergeants (Berenger and Dafoe) as realistic soldiers as well as broader symbols of Good and Evil.Full Review » 6 years ago
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Jake Euker F5 (Wichita, KS)40Full Review » 6 years ago
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Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily80Full Review » 7 years ago
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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com80Full Review » 7 years ago
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Jules Brenner Cinema Signals40Full Review » 7 years ago
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Tony Medley tonymedley.com40well made but dishonestly anti-AmericanFull Review » 7 years ago
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Clint Morris Moviehole60Full Review » 7 years ago
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Rebecca Murray About.com80Full Review » 7 years ago
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Andrew Griffin Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)80Stone takes us into the hell that was the Vietnam War and turns out a provocative film.Full Review » 8 years ago
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and Practice100A tour de force with excellent ensemble performances by the full cast, Platoon succeeds in conveying the multi-dimensional reality of the Vietnam WarFull Review » 8 years ago
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