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95-93% RT score so far will update the post for more reviews
Critic consensus: Both timely and timeless, All Quiet on the Western Front retains the power of its classic source material by focusing on the futility of war.
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>The magnification in scale and dexterity lends itself to showing off. Still, the movie aims to pummel you with ceaseless brutality, and it’s hard not to be rattled by that.
-NYtimes
>This is a film about the boys who don’t come home, and its story proves both deeply affecting—and surprisingly timeless.
>For a film focused on getting the technical realities of war correct, it is Berger’s feel for and patience with the moments that these horrors disrupt... that make this portrayal so singular.
>Because even though this version of "Quiet" predictably ends as its predecessors did, the last scene still comes as a gut punch, one that reverberates with even more significance in 2022 as war once again darkens the skies over Europe.
>The combat sequences are as impressive as anything commercial cinema has delivered over the last decade — grubbier, nastier and noisier than those in Sam Mendes’s theatrically choreographed 1917.
>All Quiet on the Western Front is state-of-the-art in shoving your nose in realistic-seeming carnage and possibly inducing hearing damage in laying on the ear-splitting aural experience of a fire-fight.
>The First World War is reimagined as a symphony of mud, teen angst and terrible beauty in All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger’s stunning German-language retelling of Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel.
Rating: R (Grisly Images|Strong Bloody War Violence)
Genre: War, History, Drama, Action
Original Language: German
Director: Edward Berger
Producer: Malte Grunert, Daniel Dreifuss
Writer: Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 28, 2022
Runtime: 2h 27m
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_quiet_on_the_western_front_2022