All Quiet on the Western Front 1930

Mordaunt Hall, New York Times: Messrs. Milestone, Abbott and Anderson in this film have contributed a memorable piece of work to the screen. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Deserves its reputation as a classic. Read more

Irene Thirer, New York Daily News: So magnificent, so powerful, that it hardly behooves mere words to tell of its heart-rending appeal, of its dramatic fire, its breath-taking battle shots in which men stab and kill each other, for the glory of war. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: All Quiet on the Western Front is the definitive World War I motion picture, the best of a surprisingly small class of movies. Read more

TIME Magazine: From such grisly materials the popular cinema is rarely drawn. The film is monumental in the courage that risked its manufacture. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: The film's strength now derives less from its admittedly powerful but highly simplistic utterances about war as waste, than from a generally excellent set of performances (Ayres especially) and an almost total reluctance to follow normal plot structure. Read more

Stephen Garrett, Time Out: The despair-and the artistry-is breathtaking. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: A harrowing, gruesome, morbid tale of war. Read more