"...Unprecedented immediacy [in] the battle scenes....Uniformly superb performances..."
Movieline's Hollywood Life Ranked #3 in Entertainment Weekly's "10 Favorite Films of the '90s" -- "...[A] masterpiece....One soul-shattering experience..."
Entertainment Weekly "...Sheer gut-wrenching immediacy....[Spielberg] has come of age as an artist..."
Sight and Sound "...Soberly magnificent....It is the ultimate devastating letter home..."
New York Times "...Effective the film is, communicating the gruesome nature of combat as few anti-war films ever have..."
Box Office "...A powerful and impressive milestone in the realistic depiction of combat, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN is as much an experience we live through as a film we watch on screen..."
Los Angeles Times "[I]t remains a spectacular, unequalled piece of action film-making."
Uncut 5 stars out of 5 -- "Spielberg's real achievement is to find telling notes in unlikely places -- here a group of soldiers ruminating on the meaning of an Edith Piaf song is as affecting as any skirmish."
Empire 4 stars out of 4 -- "One of the most harrowing and enthralling WWII epics ever made....Tom Hanks offers up a solid performance..."
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