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Bloody Sunday

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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

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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88

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.

90

L.A. Weekly by John Patterson

A scrupulously even-handed account, free of ideological or tribal partisanship, based on eyewitness accounts by survivors and the anonymous "Paras" themselves.

70

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

The accents are thick and the soundtrack noisy, but even as the screen explodes in chaos, Greenglass maintains a solid grip on the story.

88

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.

88

Boston Globe by Wesley Morris

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.

83

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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