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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    A great movie just got greater, thanks to this thorough restoration. [Director's Cut; 27 June 1997, p.D3] Read full review

  • 100
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    You emerge from this experience rather like a returning U-boat crewman -- drained, blinking in the light, but oddly triumphant. [Director's cut] Read full review

  • 100
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    The most convincing war movie ever made. Read full review

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Wolfgang Petersen's direction is an exercise in pure craftsmanship. [Director's Cut] Read full review

  • 90
    Salon.com |

    Absolutely devastating filmmaking that makes you simultaneously feel the glory and the absolute futility of war. [Director's Cut] Read full review

  • 89
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    One of the most suspenseful films of all time, its wartime action setting makes it easy to forget it's also one of the most spiritually righteous. [Director's Cut] Read full review

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Sweaty and claustrophobic, exciting and horrifying at the same time, it never lets us forget we're riding aboard a giant, primitive tin can, a hunk of industrial machinery that mingles the illusion of omnipotence with the reality of a floating prison cell. [Director's Cut] Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    A visually spectacular film, distinguished by strong performances and brilliant Steadicam photography that snakes through the U-boat as its patrols the North Atlantic during World War II. [Director's Cut] Read full review

  • 60
    Washington Post | Rita Kempley

    Unlike Hollywood's hygienic undersea dramas, Das Boot graphically depicts the nasty intimacy of a long mission. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety |

    A descent into the pit of hell with slim odds of ever returning. Read full review

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