The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The level of accomplishment in the filmmaking is overwhelming.
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United Kingdom, Ireland · 2002
Rated R · 1h 47m
Director Paul Greengrass
Starring James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan, Mary Moulds
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama, History
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On January 30, 1972, Irish civilians were massacred by the British Army during a protest that had peaceful intentions. This film follows a civil rights activist who led it and a teenage boy who gets caught up in the march.
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The level of accomplishment in the filmmaking is overwhelming.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Surges forward with barely a respite. It's like watching a propane factory burn, waiting for the tanks inside to explode, and when they do, we're right in the middle of it.
A scrupulously even-handed account, free of ideological or tribal partisanship, based on eyewitness accounts by survivors and the anonymous "Paras" themselves.
The accents are thick and the soundtrack noisy, but even as the screen explodes in chaos, Greenglass maintains a solid grip on the story.
Austin Chronicle by Kimberley Jones
A triumph in anguish.
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
It's a mad cycle of arrogance and despair, and Bloody Sunday etches it onto your nervous system.
Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
What Bloody Sunday lacks in clarity, it makes up for with a great, fiery passion.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
One view of what happened that day, a very effective one. And as an act of filmmaking, it is superb: A sense of immediate and present reality permeates every scene.
The film is conducted in a delirious cinema-verite style; most of what you see has a brutal, you-are-there immediacy. You're not merely watching history, you're engulfed by it.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by William Arnold
There's no denying the skill and flair with which director Paul Greengrass has restaged this unhappy event, creating an uncanny sense of immediacy and allowing us to be a fly on the wall at a seminal '70s tragedy.
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