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Bosley Crowther, New York Times: A stunningly brilliant and intriguing screen spectacle, rich in theatrical invention, in heroic imagery and also gracefully regardful of the conventions of the Elizabethan stage. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: One can pick plenty of bones with Laurence Olivier's direction of the Shakespeare play, but this 1945 film is still a powerful production from many standpoints. Read more
Judy Stone, San Francisco Chronicle: Henry V was Olivier's first Shakespearean film, and he directed it with brilliant imagination and elegance. Read more
James Agee, TIME Magazine: The movies have produced one of their rare great works of art. Read more
Wally Hammond, Time Out: If it has power now, it's for Larry's commanding soldier-king and for his audacious sub-Brechtian adapatation, which scythes the text to reveal the heart - notably in the extraordinary, moving, pre-battle 'A little touch of Harry' exposing cold fear's co Read more
Manny Farber, The New Republic: While definitely athletic, pageant-minded and somewhat recognizable after all of the war dramas that have come out since Elizabethan times, no movie has given a more poignant impression of men in battle or been so cutting about the waste and folly of war. Read more