The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943

Critics score:
96 / 100

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Thomas M. Pryor, New York Times: Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Maybe the most wonderfully British movie ever made. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie looks past the fat, bald military man with the walrus moustache, and sees inside, to an idealist and a romantic. To know him is to love him. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Its brilliance lies in its insistence that even dinosaurs deserve empathy and maybe even love. Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: A 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger collaboration so unambiguously satirizing the military mind-set that Prime Minister Winston Churchill tried to have it banned. Read more