Miracle at St. AnnaMovie Reviews

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Metascore®37 out of 100 | Generally unfavorable reviews

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

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Contains scenes of brilliance, interrupted by scenes that meander. There is too much, too many characters, too many subplots. But there is so much here that is powerful that it should be seen no matter its imperfections. Read full review

  • 63
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    Miracle at St. Anna is overlong and poorly focused. It tends to meander, the military context is not well established, and too much time is spent on interaction with underdeveloped secondary characters. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips

    Half the time I wasn't sure what Lee was going for in terms of tone, or style, or focus. It was a tricky assignment to begin with, because McBride's novel, and his screenplay, is part socio-historical corrective, part magical-realist folklore, part wartime procedural. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Aspires to be epic, but mostly it's just unfocused, sprawling and badly in need of editing. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    It is in the fragile bonds that form between the black soldiers and the Italian villagers that Miracle at St. Anna breaks free of its own grandiosity and tells a grounded, moving, human story. Not a miracle by any means, but an earthy inquiry into death, duty, friendship and honor. What we’ve always wanted from war movies. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Miracle isn't powerful, it's muddled and diffuse. Read full review

  • 42
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Staff (Not credited)

    Miracle plays like "School Daze" transplanted to the European front, with the token militant, the token uplift-the-race type, and the token buffoon all marching inexorably toward Checkpoint Irony. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    Pedestrian and awkward, this film is a disappointment not only in comparison with Lee's earlier epic, the underrated " Malcolm X," but also in comparison with another film with similar aims, Rachid Bouchareb's "Days of Glory." Read full review

  • 20
    Village Voice | Scott Foundas

    You may begin to wonder if Lee really initiated this project or if it only fell into his hands after Roberto Benigni proved unavailable. Read full review

  • 20
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    This is a sloppy stew in which the ingredients of battle action, murder mystery, little-kid sentiment and history lesson don't mix well. Read full review

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