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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★★★★ 1

  Watched at a Midas auto repair shop (it was playing on the TV at full volume)

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  Review by adambolt ★★★★½ 1

  absolutely lost my shit when Vin Diesel showed up

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  Review by Christmas Di Leo 🎄 ★★★★★ 40

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

  I nearly smash my television every time I see Upham frozen and crying up on those stairs.

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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★★★★ 34

  Within 30 minutes into Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg rewrites everything about warfare filmmaking, destroys several Hollywood clichés, completely redefines the combat genre, and permanently cements his film's place amongst the greatest examples of its kind. And the rest of the picture is no less intense, for this World War II epic remains powerful, visceral & harrowing throughout.

  The film opens with the devastating but successful invasion of Normandy by the Allied powers during World War II and the main plot surfaces after that. The story concerns a band of soldiers who are assigned a new mission to go behind enemy lines in order to retrieve a missing soldier whose brothers have been killed in action.

  Spielberg's direction this time around…

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  Review by mulaney ★★★★½ 2

  war is bad. tom hanks is good.

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  Review by Zegan ★★★★ 11

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  Review by ScreeningNotes ★★★★ 22

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

  "I don't know. Part of me thinks the kid's right. What's he done to deserve this? He wants to stay here, fine. Let's leave him and go home. But another part of me thinks, what if we stay, and by some miracle we actually make it out of here alive? Someday we might look back on this and decide that saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole godawful, shitty mess."

  This quote right here is the ethical core of Saving Private Ryan. The search for Private Ryan functions as an allegory for the United States's involvement in WWII and generally as any nation's attitude toward warfare.

  Hanks and his band…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★

  "When was the last time you felt good about anything?"

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  Review by Ethan 🎄 3

  Please believe me when I tell you this movie gave me my first gray hair.

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  Review by mathew ★★★★½ 1

  Captain Miller really tried to be hot and mysterious by not telling everyone who he was before the war. He's so me.

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★★ 3

  I first watched this almost 20 years ago and remember my 20 year old self, being young and foolish, was rather awe struck by the battle scenes.

  Now, in a time where the face of warfare has changed drastically into an impersonal beast of sadistic violence, Spielberg's matter-of-fact approach to the violence in war and the contrasting humanity in his characters somehow seem all the more pertinent.

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  Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★½ 36

  The opening D-Day sequence in Saving Private Ryan is a stunning feat. It is visceral cinema at its finest, done with incredible intensity, chaos, and emotion. As a large budget craftsman, Spielberg is unbeaten. However after that opening the film moves from one set piece to another, with plenty of silly dramatics along the way. Classic Spielberg sentimentality is fine in his genre films, but it has always irked me in his dramas, as it cheapens historical realities. While I commend Saving Private Ryan for the realism of its graphic violence, which ensures this war is remembered for its brutality, ultimately the film romanticises action. Spielberg is a master dramatist, but he only re-affirms audience expectations and biases rather than…