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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: If you haven't seen it, you have an incredible treat in store. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Though it can be bombastic and mind-numbing, it's often lively and eye filling. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: Exhaustive, spectacular, often dazzling in its ambition and faithfulness to Tolstoy, the movie is still regarded as one of the wonders of epic cinema. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Considering its cost and the vast effort that went into its making, such a film can be made only once in our time. The wonder, indeed, is that it was made at all. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Frequently gorgeous, occasionally dull, always fascinating. Read more
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: This is the barbaric yawp of the Soviet film industry circa 1968, an entertainment A-bomb test announcing to the world: 'Here is what we are capable of.' Read more