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Mordaunt Hall, New York Times: There is in this edition of the picture an effort to cover too many historical incidents and the consequence is that quite a number of the passages are confused. Read more
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Apart from the fireworks the film is blocky, arrhythmic, and resolutely superficial. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Like D.W. Griffith, Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas, but mostly James Cameron, Gance understood the thrill of the cinematic event and had the hubris to bring it off. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Gance uses techniques not much associated with silent film, like a hand-held camera, multiple superimpositions, split split screen, rapid-fire editing and flashbacks to rivet the audience's attention and bring history to vivid life. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Napoleon is the last great silent epic. We will not see its like again. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: The experience it provides - at times, akin to taking a drug - is unlike anything I've ever experienced in a movie theater. Read more