A film that slipped through the cracks.
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07/19/09
Overlord (1975)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:11
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.1/10
Theatrical Release:Jul 14, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Shot in 1975, OVERLORD is a little-seen drama about a soldier going off to fight in World War II. Director Stuart Cooper utilizes real footage from the battle itself to add a strong dose of realism... [More]
Starring: Brian Stirner, Nicholas Ball, Davyd Harries, Julie Neesam
Director: Stuart Cooper
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10/18/08
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02/05/08
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04/26/07
An unknown classic.
10/05/06
Overlord feels like a small but vivid tragedy inside an epic container.
07/21/06
Top CriticThe overriding themes of the film are never broadly stated but are subtly revealed, and the horror and reality of war are quietly played out on both the human and panoramic levels with disturbing effect.
07/14/06
Top CriticThough made 31 years after D-Day, the dramatic scenes have the period look of a '40s movie, which links them perfectly with the stunning archival footage.
07/14/06
Top CriticOverlord, a prize-winning entry in the 1975 Berlin Film Festival, deserves to join the pantheon of essential World War II combat movies.
07/13/06
Top CriticIt's still a feat of period filmmaking. More than that, Overlord's revivification of a wasteland Europe offers up a powerful whip lesson for the postwar complacent.
07/11/06
Top CriticThe film plays like a 1950's B-movie with artistic pretensions.
06/29/06
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06/24/06
Top CriticA majestic, somber work about war.
06/03/06
Top CriticCooper gives it the right understated, unheroic feel.
06/02/06
Top CriticIt's an extremely clever weave of components, combining, almost flawlessly, the dramatized and the archival, the result being a hybrid of forms.
06/02/06
Top CriticCombines its newsreel and fictional footage so effectively that it has a greater impact than all fiction, or all documentary, could have achieved.
06/02/06
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