The Good Soldier: Critic Reviews

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 14 reviews

Neil Genzlinger New York Times (Top Critic)

40

A film whose benign-sounding title and Veterans Day release give a false impression of what it actually is: an attack on the military, drenched in blood.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Aaron Hillis Village Voice (Top Critic)

Potent and wisely straightforward.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Ronnie Scheib Variety (Top Critic)

Avoids preaching to the choir, though perhaps only the choir will attend.
Full Review » 3 years ago
V.A. Musetto New York Post (Top Critic)

50

Has important things to say. Sadly, it does so in an unexciting manner.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Marty Mapes Movie Habit

75

Soldiers tell us the cost of killing
Full Review » 2 years ago
Cynthia Fuchs PopMatters

The familiar format helps to underscore what's extraordinary about these stories, the fear and indignity felt by the soldiers.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Gabe Leibowitz Film and Felt

57

The humane portrayals make it worthwhile, if unspectacular, viewing.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Matthew Nestel Boxoffice Magazine

60

Their wars differ but their tales are eerily identical. Their material is arresting, with troves of detailed memories pouring out for the first time.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru

83

A provocative, vital, honest and profoundly moving documentary.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Nicolas Rapold Time Out New York

60

An explicitly antiwar conclusion unwisely makes the grim focus feel like a bias, but the power of the interviews makes one wish for more stories, not fewer.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Kam Williams Sly Fox

100

Co-directors Lexy Levell and Michael Uys deserve a 21-gun salute for fashioning a sobering antidote to all that patriotic claptrap about serving God, country and apple pie.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews

Deeply affecting antiwar documentary arriving just at the right moment with Obama planning to send 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan and just after the senseless massacre at Fort Hood.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Jennifer Merin About.com

80

This profoundly provocative film has the potential to change society's attitude towards and acceptance of war. It is extremely important that it be seen as widely as possible.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Harvey S. Karten Compuserve

50

A well-intentioned but uninvolving anti-war documentary.
Full Review » 3 years ago