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11 Critics' reviews

Platoon
Platoon (1986)
Oliver Stone
Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe ...
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[FilmAffinity]
"This film is an act of courage (...) This bold combat movie projects Vietnam with such ferocity that no one can ever doubt that that war was indeed anything but a living hell."
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[New York Daily News]
"Oliver Stone's war classic is overlooked sometimes because of it's brutal but long-winded portrayal of the duality of man. This however remains gripping stuff (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
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[Empire]
"[Stone] clearly wants us to understand what fighting in that war was like. He succeeds with an immediacy that is frightening."
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[Los Angeles Times]
"One hell of a war movie (...) It encompasses an admirably wide range of emotions, reactions, and identities (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
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[Diario El País]
"[It] honors its uneasy, complex, still haunted subject (...) Possibly the best work of any kind about the Vietnam War since Michael Herr's vigorous and hallucinatory book 'Dispatches'."
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[The New York Times]
"Stone's eye-blistering images possess an awesome power, which sets the senses reeling and leaves the mind disturbed."
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[Time Out]
"There is plenty of good work to be found here, and pic certainly grabs the viewer by the collar in a way not found everyday in contemporary films."
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[Variety]
"'Platoon' is a triumph for Oliver Stone, a film in which a visceral approach to violence (...) is balanced by classical symmetries and a kind of elegiac distance."
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[The Washington Post]
"This is a modern classic and a personal exorcism for its director (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
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[Radio Times]
"[Stone showcases] his ability to balance the sheer brutality of war with a moving elegy to the loss of innocence."
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[BBC]
"Effective (...) Stone sets up his shots to deny us the feeling that combat makes sense (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
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[rogerebert.com]
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