With its sententious air of historical reckoning, Enemies is an impressive monument, but not a moving one.
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Visceral and engrossing.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt
While following a fairly predictable story line, the film has enough ambushes, treachery and irony to sustain audience involvement with a range of characters that stand for diverse points of view about that war.
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It could be set during the war in Iraq, but the brutal French film Intimate Enemies takes place in 1959, at the height of the Algerian struggle against French rule.