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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonTime Out LondonTom HuddlestonThis is the director’s most vivid, most emotional and humane film, and perhaps his best.
- 100Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumBanned in France for 18 years, this masterpiece still packs a wallop, though nothing in it is as simple as it may first appear; audiences are still arguing about the final sequence, which has been characterized as everything from a sentimental cop-out to the ultimate cynical twist.
- 100Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertPaths of Glory was the film by which Stanley Kubrick entered the ranks of great directors, never to leave them.
- 100The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt is arguably the best film about the first world war, and still has a reasonable claim to being Stanley Kubrick's best film.
- 100Wall Street JournalWall Street JournalOne of the greatest war films ever made.
- 80CineVueDaniel GreenCineVueDaniel GreenPaths of Glory undoubtedly succeeds in both foreshadowing the bravura auteurism that was to come as well as lampooning the abhorrent bureaucracy that destroyed the lives of so many brave young men in Europe's trenches.
- 80The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyThe sardonic rhetoric may be laid on a little heavily at times, but the movie is blunt and scornfully brilliant.
- 60The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherMr. Kubrick has made it look terrific. The execution scene is one of the most craftily directed and emotionally lacerating that we have ever seen. But there are two troubling flaws in this picture, one in the realm of technique and the other in the realm of significance, which determine its larger, lasting worth.