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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
One doesn't come away from it with any sense of what the victory cost in human terms. Read full review
Maxwell has populated his film with paragons rather than people. Worse, they talk and talk and talk; this film is in danger of talking itself to death before the Union and the Confederacy are able to decimate each other. Read full review
Gods and Generals is American history transformed into a museum movie, consistently making the flawed human characters at the heart of the Civil War into flawless figures Olympian in their statuesque remoteness. Read full review
The kind of movie beloved by people who never go to the movies, because they are primarily interested in something else--the Civil War, for example--and think historical accuracy is a virtue instead of an attribute. Read full review
You don't envy the three soldiers who get shot for desertion, but you do identify with their desire to flee. Read full review
Bloodless and false. Read full review
Less a movie than a meticulously, tediously accurate Civil War reenactment committed to celluloid. Read full review
A lumpy three-and-a-half-hour glob of Civil War history. Read full review
It's a plodding, episodic film, reverent and sanctimonious, and its pro-Southern viewpoint -- a time-honored Hollywood tendency -- makes "Gone With the Wind" look like a Northern polemic. Read full review
What the filmmakers fail to recognize is that history on the page is quite different from what it needs to be onscreen, namely alive and visceral. Read full review