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NUMBERS
Box Office: $555,414
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CONSENSUS
Bloody Sunday powerfully recreates the events of that day with startling immediacy.
CAST & CREW
James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell
Directed by Paul Greengrass
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SYNOPSIS
In documentary style, Paul Greengrass' BLOODY SUNDAY, which chronicles the events of January 30, 1972 in Derry, Ireland, is filmed with gritty gray realness. more...
MPAA RATING
R, violence and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 50 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Oct 4, 2002
Video: Apr 22, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
Paramount Classics
GENRE
Dramas, Politics, War, Historical, Ireland, Based On A Novel
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Bloody Sunday Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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 "The film exudes a universality that may apply to any conflict, especially any that provokes people to become killing machines in the name of nationalism."
-- Gregory Weinkauf, DALLAS OBSERVER
"The film could have been one of the year's finest, if only it was more accessible."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"It offers an important lesson about how a supposedly simple disagreement can get so far out of hand that lives are lost."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"...once the true impact of the day unfolds, the power of this movie is undeniable."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"A forceful and accomplished work."
-- Doris Toumarkine, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Astonishingly skillful and moving...it could become a historically significant work as well as a masterfully made one."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"Bloody Sunday has the grace to call for prevention rather than to place blame, making it one of the best war movies ever made. It’s a movie that accomplishes so much that one viewing can’t possibly be enough."
-- Collin Souter, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"Goes some way towards explaining how the tragedy occurred and its enduring legacy today."
-- Neil Smith, BBCI FILMS
"The moral shrapnel and mental shellshock will linger long after this film has ended."
-- Elias Savada, NITRATE ONLINE
"What Bloody Sunday lacks in clarity, it makes up for with a great, fiery passion."
-- Rene Rodriguez, MIAMI HERALD
"'...the film’s considered approach to its subject matter is too calm and thoughtful for agitprop, and the thinness of its characterizations makes it a failure as straight drama.'"
-- Josh Ralske, ALL MOVIE GUIDE
 "The result is solemn and horrifying, yet strangely detached."
-- Jackie Potts, CITYSEARCH
"There is no solace here, no entertainment value, merely a fierce lesson in where filmmaking can take us."
-- Mary F. Pols, CONTRA COSTA TIMES
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"With its jerky hand-held camera and documentary feel, Bloody Sunday is a sobering recount of a very bleak day in Derry."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"Few films have captured the chaos of an urban conflagration with such fury, and audience members will leave feeling as shaken as Nesbitt's Cooper looks when the bullets stop flying."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"Easily stands alongside such throat-clutching classics of cinematic political action as Z and The Battle of Algiers."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"A dreadful day in Irish history is given passionate, if somewhat flawed, treatment."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"When it really counts ... Bloody Sunday connects on a visceral level that transcends language."
-- Steve Schneider, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"An authentically vague, but ultimately purposeless, study in total pandemonium."
-- Chuck Rudolph, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"One-sided documentary offers simplistic explanations to a very complex situation. ... Stylistically, the movie is a disaster."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"The primitive force of this film seems to bubble up from the vast collective memory of the combatants. It's like watching a nightmare made flesh."
-- Peter Rainer, NEW YORK MAGAZINE
"Drops you into a dizzying, volatile, pressure-cooker of a situation that quickly snowballs out of control, while focusing on the what much more than the why."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"[Nesbitt's is] one of those performances that simply 'is.'"
-- David Poland, HOT BUTTON
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FRESH 92%
Avg. Rating: 8.4/10 |
"A compelling, gut-clutching piece of advocacy cinema that carries you along in a torrent of emotion as it explores the awful complications of one terrifying day."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Would that Greengrass had gone a tad less for grit and a lot more for intelligibility."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"Bloody Sunday not only is a classic study in the way things can go devastatingly, violently wrong, but also a lesson in the importance of not letting that happen."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"I admired this work a lot."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"A bracing, unblinking work that serves as a painful elegy and sobering cautionary tale."
-- Steven Rea, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
"Greengrass (working from Don Mullan's script) forgoes the larger socio-political picture of the situation in Northern Ireland in favour of an approach that throws one in the pulsating thick of a truly frightening situation."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"Unfolds with such a wallop of you-are-there immediacy that when the bullets start to fly, your first instinct is to duck."
-- Bruce Newman, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
"Little more than a well-mounted history lesson."
-- Bill Muller, ARIZONA REPUBLIC
"You're not merely watching history, you're engulfed by it."
-- Wesley Morris, BOSTON GLOBE
"The level of accomplishment in the filmmaking is overwhelming, because in addition to the flash-cut boldness, it's an earthy epic like Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
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"Greengrass has delivered an undoubted stylistic tour-de-force, and has managed elements such as sound and cinematography with skill"
-- Harvey O'Brien, HARVEY'S MOVIE REVIEW
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
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