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  Review by Matt Neglia ★★★★½ 59

  ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT is the most terrifyingly realistic depiction of war on film since Saving Private Ryan. A bleak, brutal onslaught on the senses with an immersive soundscape & astonishing cinematography. A stunning technical achievement on all fronts from production design, makeup, original score to Felix Kammerer’s agonizing performance.

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  Review by elvisthealien ★★★★½ 25

  Best war movie I've seen in years. I was bawling my eyes out during *that* scene between the two soldiers in the crater. Outstanding performances all around.

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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★½

  Fine I guess? Well-made, I suppose? I just feel like I've gotten everything I can out of Oscar-nominated war films and I don't need to see any more

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  Review by Jamelle Bouie ★★ 46

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  I absolutely get why people like this movie. It is a brutal and visually-impressive depiction of the mind-numbing violence and chaos of the First World War. It shows, unflinchingly, what it might have actually looked like to fight in those trenches.

  For as good as that might be, however, it is not "All Quiet on the Western Front."

  Erich Maria Remarque 1929 novel is not about the violence and chaos of The Great War, although that is an important part of the story. His novel is about the profound alienation of war, on the terrible toll it takes on those enlisted to fight it, and on the very real sense that even soldiers who survive can never really come home.…

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  Review by kevinyang ★★★½ 10

  Man if only these guys had seen 1917 they could've avoided all this

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  Review by Rohit ★★★★ 7

  21 years later some mf really convinced all of Germany for a second attempt.

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  Review by CinemaJoe ★★★★ 9

  War never changes and neither do war movies. Still, some are better at depicting the senseless barbarity of war rather than romanticizing it and fortunately, All Quiet on the Western Front falls in the former. Faithful to the novel's famous anti-war message and backed by a powerful score with gripping cinematography, the film is another poignant reminder that there are no winners in war, only victims.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★½

  artfully unremarkable. unremarkably artful.

  Come and C/C+.

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  Review by Lennard 8

  When Daniel Brühl said: "its all quiet on the Western Front", i literally came.

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  Review by George Clark ★★★★ 26

  All Quiet on the Western Front is the best war film I’ve seen in quite some time, arguably standing alongside 1917 and Hacksaw Ridge as one of the best this decade.

  Not often are films made from the German perspective, let alone make you sympathetic towards the soldiers. Yet it’s an approach that worked wonders for me. These men weren’t monsters, simply soldiers under the orders of a deranged man. That’s what makes All Quiet on the Western Front one of the most terrifying depiction of war I’ve seen to date. It’s a bleak, brutal onslaught of death and disparity, humanising soldiers on each front while also painfully capturing the worst of humanity with little to no hope left. Its…

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  Review by alor ★★★★★ 13

  Felix Kammerer you are a star and your performance was heartbreakingly beautiful.

  Possibly the best film of the year so far.

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  Review by ram<3 ★★★★½ 1

  the silence i had watching that ending