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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: Sleek and suspenseful. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It's not your Dad's submarine melodrama, and, for the most part, it's exciting stuff. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: As intelligent as it is suspenseful. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Despite its exciting moments, the film is too long. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [A] really strong work from start to finish. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's no Das Boot, Crimson Tide or The Enemy Below. But it's no embarrassment, either. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Apart from its exhaustingly repetitive attention to the contrasting Ford and Neeson characters, the movie has virtually no interest in the secondary and tertiary characters whose heroism, jitters, sacrifice and suffering are at the heart of the story. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: 'K-19' isn't a movie that will necessarily charge up the kind of audience that embraces the overblown plot gimmicks of 'The Sum of All Fears' or the stylized paranoia of 'The Bourne Identity', but Bigelow makes 'K-19' an effective and moving thriller. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: A tense, swift drama of mechanical catastrophe and dueling egos. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Within the clutter of accents and heavenly choirs -- Klaus Badelt's score is at times a bit much -- lurks a good story. And, in midsummer, that's often all we can ask for. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A taut, sobering film. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Pleasantly old-fashioned for the most part, K-19 frankly spends more time than is necessary on these preliminaries. It becomes another, better movie when the nuclear crisis begins. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: If you enjoy the tense claustrophobia of submarine thrillers, K-19 fills the bill. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: At its best, it almost makes you feel proud to have been a Soviet communist, -- even if you weren't. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: K-19 may not hold a lot of water as a submarine epic, but it holds even less when it turns into an elegiacally soggy Saving Private Ryanovich. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: The movie, from director Kathryn Bigelow, can't keep track of what course it wants to steer. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: While the film deals with serious issues based on fact, its emotional tone is too solemn. All hands aboard K-19 seem to have deluded themselves into believing that they're making an American Das Boot. Read more
John Powers, L.A. Weekly: K-19 is so unnervingly square that it seems eerily like Party-sanctioned Soviet filmmaking. Read more
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic: Why did movie moguls think that this was the right moment for a tale of unflinching loyalty to the Soviet Union? Read more
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James Berardinelli, ReelViews: K-19 will not go down in the annals of cinema as one of the great submarine stories, but it is an engaging and exciting narrative of Man confronting the Demons of his own fear and paranoia. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: [Bigelow] is an expert technician who never steps wrong and is skilled at exploiting the personal qualities of Ford and Neeson to add another level of uncertainty. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Joins Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot at the top of a very short list of the best submarine movies ever made. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Bigelow is known for making good, visceral movies, but here she adopts a kind of dignified watchfulness, and that feels right for the material. Read more
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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: The movie's centrepiece is as close to tour-de-force suspense filmmaking as you'll see anywhere this summer. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, Time Out: Remember The Hunt for Red October, in which Sean Connery played a Russian sub captain without modifying his Scottish burr in the slightest? He's my hero. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: Though this saga would be terrific to read about, it is dicey screen material that only a genius should touch. Read more
Robert Koehler, Variety: Obediently follows the verities of the submarine movie and its true story origins but without the imagination needed to refresh the genre. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Bigelow hits all her marks and more within the narrow parameters. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: Gets stuck in a no man's land between the real and the fictional. Read more