Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

The ensemble cast shared the best-actor award at the 2006 Cannes film festival -- and rightly so.

Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern

A splendid war movie. The combat sequences are harrowing -- all the more so for the director's spare, sharp-eyed style -- and the performances are phenomenally fine.

Salon by Stephanie Zacharek

This is a supreme example of how a filmmaker can make a work of fiction based on fact that, without didacticism or heavy-handed moralizing, leaves us feeling more connected not just with history but with what makes us human in the first place.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

On the list of WWII stories criminally ignored by six decades of combat movies in the past 60 years, the heroics of French colonial soldiers ranks pretty high. But Rachid Bouchareb's powerful drama -- which won the 2006 Cannes Film Festival's best-actors award for its superb ensemble cast and was nominated for a best foreign-language-film Oscar, went a long way toward rectifying the situation, both on screen and in real life.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

As directed by Rachid Bouchareb, himself born in France to Algerian immigrants, "Days of Glory" is a kind of a North African "Saving Private Ryan," a taut, involving film that delivers all the things we look for in war movies and does so with intelligence and integrity.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein

Indigènes is a stupendous work--and why that new title stinks to heaven.

Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

Bouchareb's film helped shame the French government into raising pensions for more than 80,000 of these veterans. Here's that rare movie that really did change things. I'll be damned.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

Its social impact is part of what makes this movie memorable. But as with almost any exceptional, truthful war picture, Days of Glory moves us because we know the soldiers -- because we share their fear, triumph and pain.

USA Today by Claudia Puig

Not only a stirring history lesson and an action-packed war film, Glory is also a ferocious statement about enduring discrimination that resounds today.

Boston Globe by Wesley Morris

A movingly acted, terrifically old-fashioned World War II picture rethought as a post-colonial rebuke.

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

It is a chronicle of courage and sacrifice, of danger and solidarity, of heroism and futility, told with power, grace and feeling and brought alive by first-rate acting. A damn good war movie.

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

With strong visuals and even stronger emotions, Rachid Bouchareb's Days of Glory makes a powerful war film about a particularly unique subject.

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Conventional, but intensely passionate, war movie.

The A.V. Club by Nathan Rabin

Days Of Glory isn't subtle in its exploration of the racial politics of warfare, but its grim, cynical portrayal of young men considered worthy enough to die for a foreign country, yet unworthy of being treated as equals, proves bluntly powerful.

Variety

Committed performances and strong widescreen lensing carry the message with a righteous, if heavy weight.

Village Voice

Days of Glory is as moving as it is ingenuous, with each doomed character symbolizing a different response to the collective dilemma these men face as Arabs with divided loyalties.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Days of Glory has good intentions and a well-executed combat scene, but it could do with more originality.