Born on the Fourth of July 1989

Critics score:
90 / 100

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Vincent Canby, New York Times: Born on the Fourth of July is...the most ambitious nondocumentary film yet made about the entire Vietnam experience. Read more

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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Nothing Cruise has done will prepare you for what he does in Born on the Fourth of July. Read more

Time Out: A compelling, elegiac film, particularly encouraging after the simplified morality of Platoon. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Tom Cruise, who takes Kovic from clean-cut eager teen to impassioned long-haired activist, is stunning. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: This is an impassioned movie, made with conviction and evangelical verve. It's also hysterical and overbearing and alienating. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Stone has created a film whose overblown parts add up to far less than the epic whole he had in mind. Read more