1917's reviews
Media reviews
Variety
Mendes will follow the pair into the realm of nightmares, depicting WWI as we?ve never seen it: simultaneously horrific and beautiful, immersive and detached, immediate and impossibly far removed from our own experience.
The Guardian
Masterpiece (...) An amazingly audacious film; as exciting as a heist movie, disturbing as a sci-fi nightmare.
The Hollywood Reporter
Notable technically (...) this is a protean display of virtuoso filmmaking, one that film aesthetes will wallow in but that even ordinary audiences will note and appreciate.
Indiewire
Mendes finds plenty of success with sequences that bridge the divide between forward movement and emotional reflection (...) The message is blunt but always effective.
Vanity Fair
One of the year?s mightiest technical achievements (...) It?s a staggering piece of filmmaking, admirable both for its complexity and its control.