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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: An evocative, richly plotted, edge-of-the-seat war epic. Read more
Marta Barber, Miami Herald: Dark Blue World's warm story and beautiful photography almost hits the mark, and it has a great ending. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: An effective journey through a little-known World War II story. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Its heart-tugs are mostly effective. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: It's a fitting requiem for heroes forgotten. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: This could be called an art house version of Pearl Harbor, except that sounds vaguely nutritious, like fat- free yogurt or a historical episode of A&E's Biography. But Dark Blue World is all empty carbs, like malted milk balls. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: An engrossing, elegantly detailed, intermittently sappy dramatization of the heroism of Czech bomber pilots and the ignominious fate that awaited many of them in the years following the war. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Does the world really need another painstakingly old-fashioned World War II saga? Read more
Globe and Mail: Dark Blue World almost feels like three scripts rolled into one. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Recycles some of the aerial combat footage shot for Battle of Britain (1969) and indeed some of the same old-fashioned war movie cliches. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: The memorable stars ... are the Spitfires and Messerschmitts in its aerial battles -- a crackerjack combination of live action, special effects and recycled footage. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Looks like the Eastern European version of director Michael Bay's popcorn epic from last summer. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Gawky and precious as the film can be, its context is nothing less than the 20th century. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The movie's ambitions ... are not matched by the actual story. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Sverak has a great feeling for the glories of airplanes, and the technical resources in the picture are astounding. Read more