Mrs. Miniver 1942

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The most famous and perhaps most effective propaganda film of World War II. Read more

Kate Cameron, New York Daily News: Under Sidney Franklin's watchful supervision and William Wyler's masterly direction the story has become the most stirring, heart-clutching picture of our times. Read more

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: Certainly it is the finest film yet made about the present war, and a most exalting tribute to the British, who have taken it gallantly. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's one of a few highly regarded contemporaneous motion pictures to deal frankly with the domestic aspects of World War II. Read more

TIME Magazine: That almost impossible feat, a great war picture that photographs the inner meaning, instead of the outward realism of World War II. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: Classic soap opera in which good old British understatement has a field day, everybody is frightfully nice, and sentimentality is wrapped up in yards of tasteful gloss. Read more

Herb Golden, Variety: A poignant story of the joys and sorrows, the humor and pathos of middle-class family life in wartime England. Read more