Glory 1989

Critics score:
93 / 100

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Vincent Canby, New York Times: This is a good, moving, complicated film. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A pretty watchable and always interesting period film, well photographed by English cinematographer Freddie Francis. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Glory is, without question, one of the best movies ever made about the American Civil War. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A strong and valuable film. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: It is the movie's often awesome imagery and a bravely soaring choral score by James Horner that transfigure the reality, granting it the status of necessary myth. Read more

Time Out: The stark clarity of Freddie Francis' cinematography combined with Zwick's intimate style evokes immediacy and fear. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: A stirring and long overdue tribute to the black soldiers who fought for the Union cause in the Civil War. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: It's hard not to get carried along. Read more