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Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: Unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly, your first instinct is to duck. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: You're not merely watching history, you're engulfed by it. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: What Bloody Sunday lacks in clarity, it makes up for with a great, fiery passion. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: I admired this work a lot. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Would that Greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility. Read more
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: Rarely do gunshots elicit such shock. Rarely does violence feel so horrific. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: The level of accomplishment in the filmmaking is overwhelming, because in addition to the flash-cut boldness, it's an earthy epic like Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers. Read more
Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Reader: Greengrass sacrifices character and plot to a chilling impressionistic stylization. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Greengrass has achieved such immediacy that it's hard to believe that what we're watching isn't really unfolding before our eyes. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: A compelling, gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying day. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Bloody Sunday not only is a classic study in the way things can go devastatingly, violently wrong, but also a lesson in the importance of not letting that happen. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It re-creates a moral earthquake; it captures how the eruptive texture of that day was the product of forces that had been brewing for decades. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: It's an extraordinary adrenaline-pumping immersion into historical events, and goes along way to explain the bitterness that has resounded from that day. Read more
Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: The handheld camerawork and bleached-out color palette suggest something more akin to combat footage, and candid moments recorded on the sly give Bloody Sunday a chilling realism. Read more
John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: Both an admirable reconstruction of terrible events, and a fitting memorial to the dead of that day, and of the thousands thereafter. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: Watching director Paul Greengrass's explosive Bloody Sunday, you have to remind yourself at moments that you're not looking at a documentary. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: The primitive force of this film seems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the combatants. It's like watching a nightmare made flesh. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: As an act of filmmaking, it is superb: A sense of immediate and present reality permeates every scene. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: A great achievement: tense and passionate, a film that one feels not just emotionally but also physically. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Greengrass (working from Don Mullan's script) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in Northern Ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening situation. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: A startlingly immediate re-creation of the January 1972 Derry massacre. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: As a terrifying example of what can happen when too many angry people are crowded into too small a space, it's a gripper. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A movie to remember. Read more