Bronenosets Potyomkin 1925

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: The most brilliant of all Soviet silent films. Read more

Mordaunt Hall, New York Times: The director displays a vivid imagination and an artistic appreciation of motion picture values. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: For a piece of propaganda, this has a lot more artfulness than you'll recall, replete with quiet moments of public mourning and a stirring flag-hoisting (dyed red on the new print, too). Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: Its appearance in 1925 shook the film world, and many filmmakers still haven't recovered. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It is a knockout. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: The cinema's first modernist... was the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein. As his most famous work, Battleship Potemkin, from 1925, shows, his analytical, quasi-scientific methods bore the mark of both aesthetic and political upheavals. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Battleship Potemkin is no longer considered the greatest film ever made, but it is obligatory for anyone interested in film history. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A work of straightforward emotion and pulse-quickening tension. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Edward Tisse's camerawork remains impressive, and there's no doubt that the whole is a technical tour de force, but the obsession with forces of power, as opposed to individual experience, is ultimately oppressive. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: The direction of Sergei Eisenstein is original and powerful. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: For all Potemkin's rabble-rousing propaganda, Eisenstein's aestheticism is everywhere apparent. Read more