Gallipoli 1981

Critics score:
88 / 100

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Janet Maslin, New York Times: Weir's work has a delicacy, gentleness, even wispiness that would seem not well suited to the subject. And yet his film has an uncommon beauty, warmth, and immediacy, and a touch of the mysterious, too. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Well acted and, within its limited terms, well made, Gallipoli represents a failure of nerve as well as design. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: The central section devoted to training in Egypt sags badly through its crass buddy antics and its crude caricatures of wogs and pommies. Read more